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Isaiah 17

Prophecy about Damascus

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The  1 aoracle concerning  bDamascus. "Behold, Damascus is about to be  cremoved from being a city And will become a  dfallen ruin.

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"The cities  1of  aAroer are forsaken; They will be for  bflocks  2to lie down in, And there will be  cno one to frighten them.

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"The  1 afortified city will disappear from Ephraim, And  2sovereignty from Damascus And the remnant of Aram; They will be like the  bglory of the sons of Israel," Declares the LORD of hosts.

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Now in that day the  aglory of Jacob will  1fade, And  bthe fatness of his flesh will become lean.

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It will be  aeven like the  1reaper gathering the standing grain, As his arm harvests the ears, Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain In the  bvalley of Rephaim.

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Yet  agleanings will be left in it like the  1shaking of an olive tree, Two or three olives on the topmost bough, Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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In that day man will  ahave regard for his Maker And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

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He will not have regard for the  aaltars, the work of his hands, Nor will he look to that which his  bfingers have made, Even the  1 cAsherim and  2incense stands.

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In that day  1their strong cities will be like  2forsaken places in the forest, Or like  3branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; And  4the land will be a desolation.

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For  ayou have forgotten the  bGod of your salvation And have not remembered the  crock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

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In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the  amorning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will  bbe a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

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Alas, the uproar of many peoples  aWho roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rush on like the  brumbling of mighty waters!

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The  anations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, But He will  brebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased  clike chaff in the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale.

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At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning  athey are no more.  1Such will be the portion of those who plunder us And the lot of those who pillage us.



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