Isaiah 17
The Oracle concerning
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The burden of Damascus. Jer. 49.23-27 · Amos 1.3-5 · Zech. 9.1
Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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The cities of Aro'er are forsaken:
they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
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The fortress also shall cease from
E'phra-im, 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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The Judgment on
Israel |
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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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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 Reph'a-im.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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