The burden{H4853} of Damascus.{H1834} Behold, Damascus{H1834} is taken away{H5493} from being a city,{H5892} and it shall be a ruinous{H4654} heap.{H4596}

The cities{H5892} of Aroer{H6177} are forsaken;{H5800} they shall be for flocks,{H5739} which shall lie down,{H7257} and none shall make them afraid.{H2729}

And the fortress{H4013} shall cease{H7673} from Ephraim,{H669} and the kingdom{H4467} from Damascus,{H1834} and the remnant{H7605} of Syria;{H758} they shall be as the glory{H3519} of the children{H1121} of Israel,{H3478} saith{H5002} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts.{H6635}

And it shall come to pass in that day,{H3117} that the glory{H3519} of Jacob{H3290} shall be made thin,{H1809} and the fatness{H4924} of his flesh{H1320} shall wax lean.{H7329}

And it shall be as when the harvestman{H7105} gathereth{H622} the standing grain,{H7054} and his arm{H2220} reapeth{H7114} the ears;{H7641} yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth{H3950} ears{H7641} in the valley{H6010} of Rephaim.{H7497}

Yet there shall be left{H7604} therein gleanings,{H5955} as the shaking{H5363} of an olive-tree,{H2132} two{H8147} or three{H7969} berries{H1620} in the top{H7218} of the uppermost bough,{H534} four{H702} or five{H2568} in the outmost branches{H5585} of a fruitful{H6509} tree, saith{H5002} Jehovah,{H3068} the God{H430} of Israel.{H3478}

In that day{H3117} shall men{H120} look{H8159} unto their Maker,{H6213} and their eyes{H5869} shall have respect{H7200} to the Holy{H6918} One of Israel.{H3478}

And they shall not look{H8159} to the altars,{H4196} the work{H4639} of their hands;{H3027} neither shall they have respect{H7200} to that which their fingers{H676} have made,{H6213} either the Asherim,{H842} or the sun-images.{H2553}

In that day{H3117} shall their strong{H4581} cities{H5892} be as the forsaken{H5800} places{H2793} in the wood{H534} and on the mountain top, which{H6440} were forsaken{H5800} from before the children{H1121} of Israel;{H3478} and it shall be a desolation.{H8077}

For thou hast forgotten{H7911} the God{H430} of thy salvation,{H3468} and hast not been mindful{H2142} of the rock{H6697} of thy strength;{H4581} therefore thou plantest{H5193} pleasant{H5282} plants,{H5193} and settest{H2232} it with strange{H2114} slips.{H2156}

In the day{H3117} of thy planting{H5194} thou hedgest{H7735} it in, and in the morning{H1242} thou makest thy seed{H2233} to blossom;{H6524} but the harvest{H7105} fleeth away{H5067} in the day{H3117} of grief{H2470} and of desperate{H605} sorrow.{H3511}

Ah,{H1945} the uproar{H1995} of many{H1995} peoples,{H5971} that roar{H1993} like the roaring{H1993} of the seas;{H3220} and the rushing{H7588} of nations,{H3816} that rush like the rushing{H7582} of mighty{H3524} waters!{H4325}

The nations{H3816} shall rush{H7582} like the rushing{H7588} of many{H7227} waters:{H4325} but he shall rebuke{H1605} them, and they shall flee{H5127} far off,{H4801} and shall be chased{H7291} as the chaff{H4671} of the mountains{H2022} before{H6440} the wind,{H7307} and like the whirling dust{H1534} before{H6440} the storm.{H5492}

At eventide,{H6256} behold, terror;{H1091} [and] before the morning{H1242} they are not. This is the portion{H2506} of them that despoil{H8154} us, and the lot{H1486} of them that rob{H962} us.