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Prophecy
about Damascus |
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| Isaiah 17:1 |
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The oracle concerning Damascus. "Behold, Damascus
is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin. |
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| Isaiah 17:2 |
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"The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will
be for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them. |
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| Isaiah 17:3 |
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"The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And sovereignty from Damascus And the remnant of Aram; They will be like the glory
of the sons of Israel," Declares the LORD of hosts. |
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| Isaiah 17:4 |
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Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean. |
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| Isaiah 17:5 |
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It will be even like the reaper gathering the
standing grain, As his arm harvests the ears, Or it will be like one gleaning
ears of grain In the valley of Rephaim. |
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| Isaiah 17:6 |
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Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking
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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| Isaiah 17:7 |
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In that day man will have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. |
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| Isaiah 17:8 |
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He will not have regard for the altars, the
work of his hands, Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, Even
the Asherim and incense stands. |
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| Isaiah 17:9 |
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In that day their strong cities will be like
forsaken places in the forest, Or like branches which they abandoned before the
sons of Israel; And the land will be a desolation. |
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| Isaiah 17:10 |
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For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful
plants And set them with vine slips of a strange god. |
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| Isaiah 17:11 |
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In the day that you plant it you carefully fence
it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will
be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain. |
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| Isaiah 17:12 |
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Alas, the uproar of many peoples Who roar like
the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rush on like the rumbling
of mighty waters |
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| Isaiah 17:13 |
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The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many
waters, But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like
chaff in the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale. |
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| Isaiah 17:14 |
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At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before
morning they are no more. Such will be the portion of those who plunder us And
the lot of those who pillage us. |
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