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Proclamation Against Syria and Israel

The burden[a] against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.

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A Prophecy Against Damascus

A prophecy against Damascus:
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.

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[b]The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

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The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.

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The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the Lord Almighty.

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“In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will [c]wane,
And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.

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“In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste away.

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It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.

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It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering the grain in their arms —
as when someone gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the Lord God of Israel.

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Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

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In that day a man will look to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

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In that day people will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

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He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his fingers have made,
Nor the [d]wooden images nor the incense altars.

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They will not look to the altars,
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah polesa
and the incense altars their fingers have made.

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In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken [e]bough
And [f]an uppermost branch,
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.

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In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.

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Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your [g]stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;

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You have forgotten God your Savior;
you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,

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In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

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though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.

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Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise like the roar of the seas,
And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

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Woe to the many nations that rage —
they rage like the raging sea!
Woe to the peoples who roar —
they roar like the roaring of great waters!

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The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

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Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.

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Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
And before the morning, he is no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us,
And the lot of those who rob us.

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In the evening, sudden terror!
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.

Parallel

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Isaiah 17

Isaiah 17