Amos 1:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ I will break the bar of Damascus,
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven,^[a]
and him that holds the scepter from Beth-e′den;
    and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,”
                says the Lord.

“For three transgressions of Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;^[b]
because they carried into exile a whole people
    to deliver them up to Edom.
⁷ So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.