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.
6. And gleanings will be left over in it, as when an olive tree is beaten, two or three ripe olive berries in the top of a branch, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.