Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.
Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.
The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord and against his Christ.
And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim; and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.
Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.