1. This is the message for Damascus:“The city of Damascus will be destroyed.Only ruins will be left there.
2. People will leave the cities of Aroer.Flocks of sheep will wander freely in those empty towns.There will be no one to bother them.
3. The strong, walled cities of Israel will be destroyed.The government in Damascus will end.Those left alive of Aram will belike the glory of Israel,” says the Lord of heaven’s armies.
4. “At that time Israel’s wealth will all be gone.Israel will be like a man who has lost much weight from sickness.
5. That time will be like the grain harvest in the Valley of Rephaim.The workers cut the wheat.Then they cut the heads of grain from the plants.And they collect the grain.