5 I will break the gate bar of Damascus; from the Valley of Aven I will cut off the one enthroned, and from Beth Eden the one who holds the scepter. The people of Aram will go into captivity to Kir, says the Lord.

6 Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried away into exile an entire deportation, to deliver them up to Edom.

7 So I will send fire against the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its fortresses.