2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, and they shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of Hosts.
4 And it shall be in that day, the glory of ’Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman graspeth the standing Corn, and his arm reapeth the ears 3 and it shall be as one that gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.