The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.
"The people thereof shall mourn over it ..." Some ancient renditions of this place give "priests" instead of people, "using a peculiar word derived from black garments, showing that the priests were pagan and not God's priests who ministered in white garments."[15]