The fortress also shall cease from Efrayim, and the kingdom from Dammesek, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Yisrael, saith YY -TZvaot.
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.
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.
They that swear by the sin of Shomron, and say, Thy Elohim, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-Sheva liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
For the children of Yisrael shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And Elohim said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Yisrael; but I will utterly take them away.
And YY said unto him, Call his name Yizreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Yizreel upon the house of Yehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Yisrael.
But now YY hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Ashur took Shomron, and carried Yisrael away into Ashur, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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.