⁵ I will break the bars of the gates of Damascus,
    and I will cut off the one seated in the Valley of Aven,
    and the one who holds a scepter in Beth Eden.^[a]
    So the people of Aram will go into exile toward Kir.^[b]
    The Lord has spoken.

⁶ This is what the Lord says:
    Because of three sins of Gaza,
    because of four, I will not hold back judgment,
    because they sold an entire population into exile,
    handing them over to Edom.
⁷ So I will send fire against the city wall of Gaza,
    and it will consume her citadels.