“‘It will not take place,
    it will not happen,^(B)
8 for the head of Aram is Damascus,^(C)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.^(D)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered^(E) to be a people.
⁹ The head of Ephraim is Samaria,^(F)
    and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand^(G) firm in your faith,^(H)
    you will not stand at all.’”^(I)

¹⁶ The people of Samaria^(A) must bear their guilt,^(B)
    because they have rebelled^(C) against their God.
They will fall by the sword;^(D)
    their little ones will be dashed^(E) to the ground,
    their pregnant women^(F) ripped open.”^[a]