^{1 Ref} The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.

^{2 Ref} Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.

^{3 Ref} The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.

^{4 Ref} And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.

^{5 Ref} And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.