⁸ for the head of Aram is Damascus,^(A)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.^(B)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered^(C) to be a people.

⁹ The head of Ephraim is Samaria,^(A)
    and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand^(B) firm in your faith,^(C)
    you will not stand at all.’”^(D)

¹² Listen^(A) to me, you stubborn-hearted,^(B)
    you who are now far from my righteousness.^(C)