^(A)“For three transgressions of ^(B)Damascus,
    and for four, ^(C)I will not revoke the punishment,^[a]
because they have threshed ^(D)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.

^(A)“For three transgressions of Israel,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(B)they sell the righteous for ^(C)silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals—

^(A)“For three transgressions of ^(B)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.

^(A)“For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(B)they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but ^(C)their lies have led them astray,
    those after which their fathers walked.

^(A)“For three transgressions of ^(B)Moab,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[a]
because ^(C)he burned to lime
    the bones of the king of Edom.

^(A)“For three transgressions of the ^(B)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(C)they have ripped open pregnant women in ^(D)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.

^(A)“For three transgressions of ^(B)Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(C)they carried into exile a whole people
    to deliver them up to Edom.

^(B)“Hamath and ^(C)Arpad are confounded,
    for they have heard bad news;
they melt in fear,
    ^(D)they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.
^24 (E)Damascus has become feeble, ^(F)she turned to flee,
    and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
    as ^(G)of a woman in labor.
²⁵ How is ^(H)the famous city not forsaken,
    the city of my joy?
^26 (I)Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares,
    and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day,
declares the Lord of hosts.
²⁷ And ^(J)I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^(K)Damascus,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(L)Ben-hadad.”