1 The mashaa (burden) of Damashaq (Damascus): “Behold, Damashaq (Damascus) is sawar (taken) away from being a iyar (city), and it will be a mapalah (ruinous) maiy (heap).
2 The iray (cities) of Irawair (Aroer) are forsaken. They will be for idarayam (flocks), which shall rabatz (lie) down, and none shall make them charad (afraid).
3 The mabatzar (fortress) shall shabath (shabath / rest) from Aparayam (Ephraim), and the mamalakah (kingdom) from Damashaq (Damascus), and the shaar (remnant) of Aram (Syria). They will be as the kabawad (glory) of the banay (children) of Yashar-Al (Israel),” naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies).
4 “It will happen in that yawam (day) that the kabawad (glory) of Yaiqab (Jacob - Patriarch) will be dalal (made) thin, and the fatness of his bashar (flesh) will become razah (lean).
5 It will be like when the harvester asap (gathers) the wheat, and his zarawai (arm) qatzar (reaps) the grain. Yes, it will be like when one laqat (gleans) grain in the imaq (valley) of Rapaa (Rephaim).
6 Yet gleanings will be shaar (left) there, like the naqap (shaking) of an zayath (olive) tree, shanayam (two) or shalawash (three) olives in the raash (head) of the uppermost amayar (bough), arabai (four) or chamash (five) in the outermost branches of a parah (fruitful) tree,” naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah (), the Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel).
7 In that yawam (day), adam (people) will shaih (look) to their Maker, and their iyan (eye) will raah (see / saw) respect for the qadawash (holy) One of Yashar-Al (Israel).
8 They will not shaih (look) to the mazabachawath (altars), the maishah (work) of their yad (hand); neither shall they raah (see / saw) that which their atzabai (fingers) ishah (make) made, either the Asharah (Asherim), or the incense chamanayam (altars).
9 In that yawam (day), their maiwaz (stronghold / fortress / protection) iray (cities) will be like the forsaken Charash (places) in the woods and on the panayam (face) top, which were forsaken from before the banay (my son) of Yashar-Al (Israel); and it will be a shamamah (desolation).
10 For you have shakach (forgotten) the Alahayam () of your yashai (salvation), and have not zakar (remember) the tzawar (rock) of your maiwaz (stronghold / fortress / protection). Therefore you natai (plant) naiman (pleasant) nataiy (plants), and zarai (set) out foreign seedlings.
11 In the yawam (day) of your natai (planting), you hedge it in. In the baqar (morning), you make your zarai (seed) parach (blossom), but the qatzayar (harvest) flees away in the yawam (day) of chalah (afflict) and of anash (desperate) kaab (sorrow).
12 Haway (Alas/Woe!), the uproar of many imayam (peoples), who hamah (great uproar) like the hamah (great uproar) of the yamayam (seas); and the shaawan (rushing) of laamayam (nations), that shaah (rush) like the rushing of kabayar (mighty) mayam (Waters)!
13 The laamayam (nations) will shaah (rush) like the shaawan (rushing) of many mayam (Waters): but he will gair (rebuke) them, and they will nawas (flee) marachaq (far) off, and will be radap (chased) like the matz (chaff) of the harayam (mountains) panayam (face) the rawach (spirit / wind), and like the whirling dust panayam (face) the sawapah (storm).
14 At ith (evening), behold, balahah (terror)! Before the baqar (morning), they are no more. This is the chalaq (portion) of those who plunder us, and the gawaral (lot) of those who bazaz (rob) us.