3Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
Damascus was the chief city of Syria (also called Aram), a nation that was to the north/northeast of Israel.
3 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.