^{1 Ref} The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

^{2 Ref} The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

^{3 Ref} And the fortress 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 Jehovah of hosts.

^{4 Ref} And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

^{5 Ref} And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.