3 Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they have threshed Gileadwith threshing sledges of iron.
4 So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael,and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
5 I will break the gate-bar of Damascus,and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven,and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,”says the Lord.
6 Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Gaza,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they carried into exile a whole peopleto deliver them up to Edom.
7 So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,and it shall devour her strongholds.
8 I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod,and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;I will turn my hand against Ekron,and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”says the Lord God.
9 Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Tyre,and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.