⁷ Samaria’s king will be destroyed,^(A)
    swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.
⁸ The high places^(B) of wickedness^[a](C) will be destroyed—
    it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns^(D) and thistles will grow up
    and cover their altars.^(E)
Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”^(F)
    and to the hills, “Fall on us!”^(G)

⁹ “Since the days of Gibeah,^(H) you have sinned,^(I) Israel,
    and there you have remained.^[b]
Will not war again overtake
    the evildoers in Gibeah?
¹⁰ When I please, I will punish^(J) them;
    nations will be gathered against them
    to put them in bonds for their double sin.