1
The
burden
of
Damascus.
Behold,
Damascus
is
taken
away
from
[being]
a
city,
and
it
shall
be
a
ruinous
heap.
2
The
cities
of
Aroer
[are]
forsaken:
they
shall
be
for
flocks,
which
shall
lie
down,
and
none
shall
make
[them]
afraid.
3
The
fortress
also
shall
cease
from
Ephraim,
and
the
kingdom
from
Damascus,
and
the
remnant
of
Syria:
they
shall
be
as
the
glory
of
the
children
of
Israel,
saith
the
LORD
of
hosts.
4
And
in
that
day
it
shall
come
to
pass,
[that]
the
glory
of
Jacob
shall
be
made
thin,
and
the
fatness
of
his
flesh
shall
wax
lean.
5
And
it
shall
be
as
when
the
harvestman
gathereth
the
corn,
and
reapeth
the
ears
with
his
arm;
and
it
shall
be
as
he
that
gathereth
ears
in
the
valley
of
Rephaim.
6
Yet
gleaning
grapes
shall
be
left
in
it,
as
the
shaking
of
an
olive
tree,
two
[or]
three
berries
in
the
top
of
the
uppermost
bough,
four
[or]
five
in
the
outmost
fruitful
branches
thereof,
saith
the
LORD
God
of
Israel.
7
At
that
day
shall
a
man
look
to
his
Maker,
and
his
eyes
shall
have
respect
to
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
8
And
he
shall
not
look
to
the
altars,
the
work
of
his
hands,
neither
shall
respect
[that]
which
his
fingers
have
made,
either
the
groves,
or
the
images.
9
In
that
day
shall
his
strong
cities
be
as
a
forsaken
bough,
and
an
uppermost
branch,
which
they
left
because
of
the
children
of
Israel:
and
there
shall
be
desolation.
10
Because
thou
hast
forgotten
the
God
of
thy
salvation,
and
hast
not
been
mindful
of
the
rock
of
thy
strength,
therefore
shalt
thou
plant
pleasant
plants,
and
shalt
set
it
with
strange
slips:
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]
a
heap
in
the
day
of
grief
and
of
desperate
sorrow.
12
Woe
to
the
multitude
of
many
people,
[which]
make
a
noise
like
the
noise
of
the
seas;
and
to
the
rushing
of
nations,
[that]
make
a
rushing
like
the
rushing
of
mighty
waters!
13
The
nations
shall
rush
like
the
rushing
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
like
a
rolling
thing
before
the
whirlwind.
14
And
behold
at
eveningtide
trouble;
[and]
before
the
morning
he
[is]
not.
This
[is]
the
portion
of
them
that
spoil
us,
and
the
lot
of
them
that
rob