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Prophecy about Damascus
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|Isaías 17:1|The [mournful, inspired] oracle (1 a burden to be carried) concerning Damascus[capital of Aram (Syria), and Israel's defense against Assyria] ."Listen carefully, Damascus will cease to be a city And will become a fallen ruin.
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|Isaías 17:2|"The cities of Aroer [east of the Jordan] are deserted;They will be [only a refuge] for flocks to lie down in,And there will be no one to make them afraid.
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|Isaías 17:3|"The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus And the remnant of Aram (Syria); They will be like the [departed] glory of[her ally] the children of Israel,"Declares the LORD of hosts.
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|Isaías 17:4|"Now in that day the [former] glory of Jacob[Israel—his might, his population, his prosperity] will fade,And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
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|Isaías 17:5|"And it will be like the reaper gathering the standing grain, As his arm harvests the ears of grain; Yes, it will be like one gleaning ears of grain In the [fertile] Valley of Rephaim.
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|Isaías 17:6|"Yet gleanings will be left in the land [of Israel] like the shaking of the olive tree,Two or three olives on the topmost branch, Four or five on the [outermost] branches of the fruitful tree,"Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
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|Isaías 17:7|In that day man will have regard for his Maker, And his eyes will regard the Holy One of Israel [with awe-inspired reverence] .
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|Isaías 17:8|And he will not have regard for the [idolatrous] altars, the work of his hands,Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, Neither the Asherim (symbols of the goddess Asherah) nor the incense altars.
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|Isaías 17:9|In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like2 deserted places in the forest, Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel; And the land will be a desolation.
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|Isaías 17:10|Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvationAnd have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold— Therefore you plant3 lovely plants And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,
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