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| [1]THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. |
[1]The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city. for it shall be a ruinous heap. |
| [2]abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them. |
[2]cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flocks: for they shall lie there, and none shall make them afraid. |
| [3]And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for thou art no better than the children of Israel, even than their glory; thus saith the Lord of hosts. |
[3]The munition also shall cease from Ephriam, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram [Syria] shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts. |
| [4]There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken. |
[4]And in that day the glory of Jacob shall be impoverished, and the fatness of his flesh shall be made lean. |
| [5]And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley; |
[5]And is shall be as when the harvest man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm, and he shall be as he that gathereth the ears in the valley of Rephaim. |
| [6]and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel. |
[6]Yet a gathering of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries are in the top of the utmost boughs, and four or five in the high branches of the fruit thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel. |
| [7]In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. |
[7]At that day shall a man look to his maker, and his eyes shall look to the holy one of Israel. |
| [8]And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations. |
[8]And he shall not look to the altars, the works of his own hands, neither shall he look to those things, which his own fingers have made, as groves and images. |
| [9]In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted theirs, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate. |
[9]In that day shall the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of boughs and branches, which they did forsake, because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation. |
| [10]Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper; therefore shalt thou plant a false plant, and a false seed. |
[10]Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not remembered the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set pleasant plants, and shalt graft strange vine branches; |
| [11]In the day wherein thou shalt plant thou shalt be deceived; but if thou sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein thou shalt obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, thou shalt obtain an inheritance for thy sons. |
[11]In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be gone in the day of possession, and there shall be desperate sorrow. |
| [12]Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water; |
[12]Ah, the multitude of many people, they shall make a sound like the noise of the sea; for the noise of the people shall make a sound like the noise of mighty waters. |
| [13]many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel. |
[13]The people shall make a sound like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind. |
| [14]Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance. |
[14]And lo, in the evening there is trouble: but afore the morning is gone. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. |