¹Ennustus Damaskuse kohta: Vaata, Damaskus lakkab olemast linn ja muutub varemeks.

¹The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

²Aroeri linnad jäetakse maha, jäävad karjadele, kes seal lebavad, ilma et ükski neid peletaks.

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.

³Efraimist kaob kindel linn ja Damaskusest kuningriik; ja Süüria jäägiga sünnib nagu Iisraeli laste hiilgusegagi, ütleb vägede Issand.

³The 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 Jehovah of hosts.

⁴Sel päeval jääb väikseks Jaakobi hiilgus ja lahjub tema ihu lihavus,

⁴And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

⁵otsekui lõikaja lõikaks kasvavat vilja ja tema käsivars koristaks viljapäid, otsekui nopitaks viljapäid Refaimi orus.

⁵And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

⁶Jääb ainult järelkoristus, otsekui õlipuud raputades: kaks, kolm marja ülal ladvas, neli, viis viljapuu okstel, ütleb Issand, Iisraeli Jumal.

⁶And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.

⁷Sel päeval vaatab inimene oma Looja peale ja ta silmad näevad Iisraeli Püha.

⁷In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel.

⁸Ta ei vaata altareile, oma kätetööle, ega näe seda, mis ta sõrmed on teinud, ei viljakustulpi ega suitsutusaltareid.

⁸And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.

⁹Sel päeval on tema tugevad linnad otsekui mahajäetud metsad ja mäetipud, mis Iisraeli laste pärast maha jäeti, ja tühjus võtab maad.

⁹In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.

¹⁰Sest sa unustasid oma Pääste-Jumala ega tuletanud meelde oma kindlat kaljut. Seepärast sa siis istutad Adonise aedu ja juurutad võõraid pistikuid.

¹⁰For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:

¹¹Istutamispäeval sa paned nad kasvama ja viid hommikuks oma külvi õitsema, kuid lõikus kaob tõve ja vaigistamatu valu päeval.

¹¹in the day of thy planting wilt thou make [them] to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; [but] the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable.

¹²Häda! Paljude rahvaste möll. Need mühavad, otsekui mühaks meri. Rahvahõimude märatsus. Need kohavad, otsekui kohaksid võimsad veed.

¹²Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas; -- and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters.

¹³Rahvahõimud kohavad, otsekui kohaksid suured veed. Aga tema sõitleb neid ja nad põgenevad kaugele ning neid aetakse taga, otsekui tuul puhub mägedel aganaid, otsekui torm keerutab tolmu.

¹³The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling [of dust] before the whirlwind:

¹⁴Õhtul, vaata, on kabuhirm, hommiku tulles ei ole neid enam. See on meie rüüstajate osa ja meie riisujate liisk.

¹⁴behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.