^f“The Lord ^groars from Zion

and utters his voice from Jerusalem;

the pastures of the shepherds mourn,

and the top of ^hCarmel withers.”

“For ^jthree transgressions of Damascus,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,³

because they have threshed Gilead

with threshing sledges of iron.

4  ^kSo I will send a fire upon the house of ^lHazael,

and it shall devour the strongholds of ^mBen-hadad.

5  I will break the gate-bar of Damascus,

and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven,⁴

and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;

and the people of Syria shall go into exile to ⁿKir,”

says the Lord.

“For three transgressions of ^pGaza,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they carried into exile a whole people

to deliver them up to Edom.

7  So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,

and it shall devour her strongholds.

8  I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod,

and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;

I will turn my hand against Ekron,

and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”

says the Lord God.

“For three transgressions of Tyre,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,

and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

10  So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,

and it shall devour her strongholds.”

“For three transgressions of Edom,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

^sbecause he pursued his brother with the sword

and cast off all pity,

and his anger tore ^tperpetually,

and he kept his wrath forever.

12  So I will send a fire upon Teman,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”

“For three transgressions of the Ammonites,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they have ^vripped open pregnant women in Gilead,

that they might enlarge their border.

14  So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,

and it shall devour her strongholds,

with shouting on the day of battle,

with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

15  and ^wtheir king shall go into exile,

he and his princes⁵ together,”

says the Lord.

“Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,

and shatter them on the heads of all the people;²

and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;

not one of them shall flee away;

not one of them shall escape.

2  ^h“If they dig into Sheol,

from there shall my hand take them;

ⁱif they climb up to heaven,

from there I will bring them down.

3  If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,

from there I will search them out and take them;

and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,

there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

4  And if they go into captivity before their enemies,

there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;

and I will fix my eyes upon them

^jfor evil and not for good.”

5  The Lord God of hosts,

he who touches the earth and it melts,

and ^kall who dwell in it mourn,

and all of it rises like the Nile,

and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

6  who builds his upper chambers in the heavens

and founds his vault upon the earth;

^lwho calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—

the Lord is his name.

7  “Are you not like the Cushites to me,

O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.

“Did I not bring up ^mIsrael from the land of Egypt,

and the Philistines from ⁿCaphtor and the Syrians from ^oKir?

8  Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,

and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,

except that ^pI will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

declares the Lord.

9  “For behold, I will command,

and shake the house of Israel among all the nations

as one shakes with a ^qsieve,

but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

^rwho say, ^s‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

11  ^t“In that day I will raise up

the booth of David that is fallen

and repair its breaches,

and raise up its ruins

and ^urebuild it as in the days of old,

12  that they may possess the remnant of Edom

and all the nations who are ^vcalled by my name,”³

declares the Lord who does this.

13  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,

^w“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper

and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;

^xthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and all the hills shall flow with it.

14  ^yI will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,

and they shall rebuild the ^zruined cities and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,

and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

15  ^aI will plant them on their land,

and they shall never again be uprooted

out of the land that I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;¹

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’²