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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 17
17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being
a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which
shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
17:3 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, says the LORD of hosts.
17:4 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.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps
the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley
of Rephaim.
17:6 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 utmost fruitful branches thereof, says the LORD God of Israel.
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall
have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 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.
17:9 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.
17:10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have
not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant
pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips:
17:11 In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning
shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in
the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12 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!
17:13 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.
17:14 And behold at evening-time 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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