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Isaiah 17:1-14 — Prophecy Against Damascus

Isa.17.1-14

¹An oracle concerning Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is removed from being a city, and it will become a heap of ruins. ²The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid. ³The fortress will cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel," declares the LORD of Hosts. ⁴"In that day the glory of Jacob will fade, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. ⁵It will be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears of grain; yes, it will be as when one gleans ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. ⁶Yet gleanings will remain in it, as at the beating of an olive tree: two or three berries at the top of the uppermost bough, four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree," declares the LORD, the God of Israel. ⁷In that day a man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will gaze upon the Holy One of Israel. ⁸He will not look to the altars , the work of his hands, and he will not gaze upon what his fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars . ⁹In that day his strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the thicket and the uppermost bough, which they forsook before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. ¹⁰For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign vine slips. ¹¹In the day you plant them, you carefully fence them in, and in the morning you make your seed blossom; but the harvest will vanish in a day of disease and incurable pain. ¹²Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rushing of nations, who rush like the rushing of mighty waters! ¹³The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters; but He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind, and like a tumbleweed before a storm. ¹⁴At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who loot us , and the lot of those who plunder us.

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4/11/2026

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