Yahweh will punish Samaria

2 You people everywhere on the earth, pay attention to this [DOU]!

Yahweh our God is accusing you from his holy temple in heaven.

3 He will come down from heaven

and walk on the tops of the highest mountains.

4 It will be as though the mountains will melt under his feet

like [SIM] wax melts in front of a fire,

and like [SIM] water disappears

when it rushes/flows down into a valley.

5 Those things will happen because of the terrible sins [DOU] that the people [MTY] of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, have committed.

But it was [RHQ] the people of Samaria city who persuaded all the people of Israel to sin,

and it was [RHQ] because the people of Jerusalem set up altars to worship their gods

that the other people of Judah were persuaded to worship idols on their hilltops.

6 So Yahweh will cause Samaria to become a heap of rubble/ruins;

it will be only a field for planting vineyards.

He will cause the stones of its buildings to roll down into the valley,

and the foundations of the buildings will be uncovered.

7 All the idols in Samaria will be smashed,

and the gifts given to prostitutes at the temples of their idols will be destroyed in a fire.

And because people paid prostitutes there,

their enemies will take away those idols and sell them to get money to pay to prostitutes in other countries.