You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

On that day a fugitive will come to you to report the news.

They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

Because of this the king got furiously angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

But the court will convene, and his ruling authority will be removed – destroyed and abolished forever!

You stumble day and night, and the false prophets stumble with you; You have destroyed your own people!

I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.

A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets.”

When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.

Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

So I will set Hazael’s house on fire; fire will consume Ben Hadad’s fortresses.

They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.

When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

Residents of Mareshah, a conqueror will attack you, the leaders of Israel shall flee to Adullam.

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”