The burden
of Damascus.
Behold, Damascus
is taken away
from being a city,
and it shall be a ruinous
heap.
The cities
of Aroer
are forsaken:
they shall be for flocks,
which shall lie down,
and none shall make them afraid.
The fortress
also shall cease
from Ephraim,
and the kingdom
from Damascus,
and the remnant
of Syria:
they shall be as the glory
of the children
of Israel,
saith
the LORD
of hosts.
firm
ὀχυρὰ
ochyra
better
βελτίων
beltiōn
And in that day
it shall come to pass, that the glory
of Jacob
shall be made thin,
and the fatness
of his flesh
shall wax lean.
And it shall be as when the harvestman
gathereth
the corn,
and reapeth
the ears
with his arm;
and it shall be as he that gathereth
ears
in the valley
of Rephaim.
reaping
ἀμητὸν
amēton
Yet gleaning grapes
shall be left
in it, as the shaking
of an olive tree,
two
or three
berries
in the top
of the uppermost bough,
four
or five
in the outmost fruitful
branches
thereof, saith
the LORD
God
of Israel.
cleft
ῥῶγες
rhōges
raised from the ground
μετεώρου
meteōrou
At that day
shall a man
look
to his Maker,
and his eyes
shall have respect
to the Holy
One of Israel.
And he shall not look
to the altars,
the work
of his hands,
neither shall respect
that which his fingers
have made,
either the groves,
or the images.
In that day
shall his strong
cities
be as a forsaken
bough,
and an uppermost branch,
which they left
because
of the children
of Israel:
and there shall be desolation.
Amorraios
Αμορραῖοι
amorraioi
Euaios
Ευαῖοι
euaioi
Because thou hast forgotten
the God
of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful
of the rock
of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant
plants,
and shalt set
it with strange
slips:
plant
φύτευμα
phyteuma
In the day
shalt thou make thy plant
to grow,
and in the morning
shalt thou make thy seed
to flourish:
but the harvest
shall be a heap
in the day
of grief
and of desperate
sorrow.
blossom
ἀνθήσει
anthēsei
reaping
ἀμητὸν
amēton
Woe
to the multitude
of many
people,
which make a noise
like the noise
of the seas;
and to the rushing
of nations,
that make a rushing like the rushing
of mighty
waters!
The nations
shall rush
like the rushing
of many
waters:
but God shall rebuke
them, and they shall flee
far off,
and shall be chased
as the chaff
of the mountains
before
the wind,
and like a rolling thing
before
the whirlwind.
dismiss
ἀποσκορακιεῖ
aposkorakiei
chaff
χνοῦν
chnoun
squall descending from above
καταιγὶς
kataigis
And behold at eveningtide
trouble;
and before the morning
he is not. This is the portion
of them that spoil
us, and the lot
of them that rob
us.
go out for foraging
προνομευσάντων
pronomeusantōn
