4 for ybefore the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ zthe wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
1 An oracle uconcerning Damascus.
Behold, vDamascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
3 iThus says the Lord:
“For jthree transgressions of Damascus,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,1
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,2
and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;
and the people of Syria shall go into exile to nKir,”
says the Lord.
