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 will 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 will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

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

³The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

⁴“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

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

⁵It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

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

⁶Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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

⁷In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

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

⁸They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

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

⁹In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

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

¹⁰For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

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

¹¹In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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

¹²Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like 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 will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

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

¹⁴At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.