⁸ For the head of Aram is ^(A)Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces, so that it is no longer a people),

⁹ and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. ^(A)If you will not believe, you certainly shall not ^[a]last.”’”