Yahweh will punish Syria

17 I received this message from Yahweh about Damascus the capital of Syria:

“Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city;

it will be only a heap of ruins!

2 The towns near Aroer city will be abandoned.

Flocks of sheep will eat grass in the streets and lie down there,

and there will be no one to chase them away.

3 The cities in Israel will not have walls around them to protect them.

The power of the kingdom of Damascus will be ended,

and the few people who will remain in Damascus will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced.”

That is what the Commander of the armies of angels says.