Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Dammesek, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilad with threshing instruments of iron:
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Yisrael, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Dammesek and the spoil of Shomron shall be taken away before the king of Ashur.
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my YY ? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Yisrael: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Yhudah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the Torah of YY , and have not kept His Commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilad, that they might enlarge their border:
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Azah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
The burden of the word of YY in the land of Hadrach, and Dammesek shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Yisrael, shall be toward YY .
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
For the head of Syria is Dammesek, and the head of Dammesek is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Efrayim be broken, that it be not a people.
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
And the anger of YY was kindled against Yisrael, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
And the king of Ashur hearkened unto him: for the king of Ashur went up against Dammesek, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.