| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins. | 1An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. |
| 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear. | 2The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. |
| 3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts. | 3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the LORD of hosts. |
| 4“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away, | 4And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean. |
| 5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. | 5And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. |
| 6Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel. | 6Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares the LORD God of Israel. |
| 7In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. | 7In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. |
| 8They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers. | 8He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense. |
| 9In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation. | 9In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation. |
| 10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— | 10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, |
| 11though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain. | 11though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain. |
| 12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters. | 12Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters! |
| 13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale. | 13The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm. |
| 14In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us. | 14At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us. |
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