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All this is because of Jacob’s transgression
    and the sins of the house of Israel.
Who is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
Who are the high places of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?
So I will make Samaria into a ruin in the countryside,
    planting places for a vineyard.
I will hurl her stones into the valley
and will lay bare her foundations.
All her images will be smashed,
all her prostitute’s pay burned with fire,
and all her idols I will make desolate.
For from prostitute’s pay she collected them
and to prostitute’s pay they will return.

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