^{3 Ref} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

^{4 Ref} But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, And it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.

^{5 Ref} I will break the bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, And him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; And the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh.