Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,
I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; For I was a little angry, And they helped—but with evil intent.”
From you comes forth one Who plots evil against the Lord, A wicked counselor.
The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim.” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.
“Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”—