“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.^(C)
2 The cities of Aroer^(D) will be deserted
    and left to flocks,^(E) which will lie down,^(F)
    with no one to make them afraid.^(G)
3 The fortified^(H) city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
    like the glory^(I) of the Israelites,”^(J)
declares the Lord Almighty.

⁴ “In that day^(K) the glory^(L) of Jacob will fade;
    the fat of his body will waste^(M) away.
⁵ It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
    gathering^(N) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain^(O)
    in the Valley of Rephaim.^(P)

⁶ “Because this people has rejected^(D)
    the gently flowing waters of Shiloah^(E)
and rejoices over Rezin
    and the son of Remaliah,^(F)
7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
    the mighty floodwaters^(G) of the Euphrates—
    the king of Assyria^(H) with all his pomp.^(I)
It will overflow all its channels,
    run over all its banks^(J)

⁸ for the head of Aram is Damascus,^(A)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.^(B)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered^(C) to be a people.