Concerning Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver]. Hamat [Fortress] is confounded, and Arpad [I shall be spread out (or supported)]: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.Isa 17:1; Isa 36:19; Amo 1:3