8For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
9For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even to Judah; it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
10Don`t tell it in Gath, don`t weep at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.
11Pass away, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan hasn`t come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay of it.
12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
13Bind the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
14Therefore shall you give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
