²⁷ For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick
    and cumin with a rod.^(A)

³ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Damascus,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[a]
because they have threshed Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.^(A)

⁷ Has he struck them down as he struck down those who struck them?
    Or have they been killed as their killers^[a] were killed?^(A)
8 By expulsion,^[b] by exile you struggled against them;
    with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.^(B)