⁸ Because of this I will weep^(A) and wail;
    I will go about barefoot^(B) and naked.
I will howl like a jackal
    and moan like an owl.

⁹ For Samaria’s plague^(A) is incurable;^(B)
    it has spread to Judah.^(C)
It has reached the very gate^(D) of my people,
    even to Jerusalem itself.