⁸ For the head of Aram is ^(A)Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),

^16 (A)For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, ^(B)the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

⁴ for ^(A)before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of ^(B)Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”