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| Isaiah 17:1 |
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The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is
taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. |
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| Isaiah 17:2 |
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The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall
be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. |
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| Isaiah 17:3 |
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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim,
and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the
glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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| Isaiah 17:4 |
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And in that day it shall come to pass, that
the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax
lean. |
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| Isaiah 17:5 |
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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth
the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth
ears in the valley of Rephaim. |
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| Isaiah 17:6 |
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Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as
the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost
bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God
of Israel. |
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| Isaiah 17:7 |
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At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and
his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. |
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| Isaiah 17:8 |
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And he shall not look to the altars, the work
of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the
groves, or the images. |
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| Isaiah 17:9 |
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In that day shall his strong cities be as a
forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children
of Israel: and there shall be desolation. |
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| Isaiah 17:10 |
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Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: |
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| Isaiah 17:11 |
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In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow,
and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall
be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. |
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| Isaiah 17:12 |
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Woe to the multitude of many people, which make
a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a
rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! |
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| Isaiah 17:13 |
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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many
waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased
as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before
the whirlwind. |
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| Isaiah 17:14 |
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And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before
the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot
of them that rob us. |
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