The burden of Dammeseq. Behold, Dammeseq is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.

The cities of ῾Aro῾er are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

The fortress also shall cease from Efrayim, and the kingdom from Dammeseq, and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord of hosts.

And on that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Ya῾aqov shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

And it shall be as when the harvester gathers the standing corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Refa᾽im.

And gleanings shall be left of him, as in the beating of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in its fruitful branches, says the Lord God of Yisra᾽el.

At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he regard that which his fingers have made, either the asherim or the sun images.

On that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken portion of the thicket and the uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Yisra᾽el: and there shall be desolation.

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore though thou plant pleasant plants, and set it with slips of a strange god:

though in the day of thy planting thou make it grow, and in the morning thou make thy seed to flourish: yet the harvest shall disappear in the day of grief and of desperate pain.

Woe to the multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm.

And behold at evening, trouble; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.