1. The massa (burden) of Damascus. Hinei, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.
2. The cities of Aroer are deserted; they shall be for adarim (flocks), which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3. The fortified city also shall cease from Ephrayim, and the mamlechah from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram (Syria); they shall be like the kavod Bnei Yisroel, saith Hashem Tzva'os.
4. And in that day it shall come to pass, that the kavod Ya'akov shall fade, and the fatness of his basar shall waste away.