1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from {being} a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.
3 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 Jehovah of hosts.
4 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 become lean.
5 And 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.
6 And 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.
7 In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And 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.
9 In 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.
10 For 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:
11 in 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.
12 Ha! 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.
13 The 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:
14 behold, 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.
1 关于大马士革的默示： "看哪！ 大马士革快要被废弃， 不再是一个城市， 它必变作废墟。
2 亚罗珥的城市必被撇弃， 成为牧放羊群之处， 羊群必在那里躺卧， 没有人惊扰它们。
3 以法莲的堡垒必失去， 大马士革的国权也必消逝； 亚兰的余民必像以色列人的荣耀一般消灭。"这是万军之耶和华说的。
4 "到那日， 雅各的荣耀必衰落， 他肥胖的身体必消瘦。
5 就像收割的人收聚庄稼， 用手割取穗子； 又像人在利乏音谷， 拾取遗落的穗子。
6 虽然其中有少许遗下的穗子， 却好像橄榄树被打过一样。在树顶上， 只剩下两三个果子； 在那本是多结果子的果树枝上， 只留下四五个果子。"这是耶和华以色列的 神说的。
7 到那日， 人必仰望他们的创造主， 他们必亲眼看见以色列的圣者。
8 他们必不仰望自己双手所做的祭坛， 也不再看着自己指头所做的， 无论是亚舍拉， 或是香坛。
9 到那日， 他们那些因以色列人而撇弃的坚固城， 必像树林中和山顶上被撇弃的地方， 这样， 地就荒凉了。
10 因为你忘记了那拯救你的 神， 又不记念那作你避难所的磐石， 所以你虽然栽下佳美的树秧子， 种下异种的幼苗，
11 又在你栽种的日子里， 细心地在周围圈上篱笆， 到早晨， 又使你所栽种的开花， 但在愁苦与极度伤痛的日子里， 所收割的就只有一小堆。
12 唉！ 许多民族在喧哗， 他们喧嚷好像海浪澎湃； 列国在咆哮， 他们吼叫， 好像洪水奔流。
13 万族怒号， 好像众水涌流， 但 神必斥责他们， 使他们远远逃跑； 他们又被追赶， 如同山上风前的糠秕， 又像暴风前的尘土卷动。
14 在晚上有惊恐， 未到早晨， 他们就没有了， 这是那些抢夺我们的人所得的分， 是那些掠劫我们的人应得的报应。