But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return and be consumed like the terebinth and like the oak being felled, yet has its stump; the holy seed is its stump.

The burden against Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.

Come near to Me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent Me.

He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.

For this is as the waters of Noah to Me; for as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn from being angry with you and from rebuking you.

being inflamed with idols under every green tree, killing the little sons in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

Instead of being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through, I will make you for everlasting majesty, a joy of many generations.