LEB(i)
1 An oracle of Damascus:
"Look! Damascus will cease being a city and will become a heap of ruins. 2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted;* they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and ⌊no one will frighten⌋* them. 3 And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh of hosts. 4 "And this shall happen:
On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will become lean. 5 And it shall be as ⌊when a reaper gathers⌋* standing grain and he reaps grain with his arm, and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim.
"Look! Damascus will cease being a city and will become a heap of ruins. 2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted;* they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and ⌊no one will frighten⌋* them. 3 And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh of hosts. 4 "And this shall happen:
On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will become lean. 5 And it shall be as ⌊when a reaper gathers⌋* standing grain and he reaps grain with his arm, and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim.