⁸ For the head of Aram is ^(A)Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces, so that it is no longer a people),

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

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