1 An oracle of Damascus: “Look! Damascus will cease being a city and will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted; they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and no one will frighten them.
3 And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,” declares Yahweh of hosts.
4 “And this shall happen: On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will become lean.
5 And it shall be as when a reaper gathers standing grain and he reaps grain with his arm, and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 And gleanings will be left over in it, as when an olive tree is beaten, two or three ripe olive berries in the top of a branch, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.