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Judgment on Damascus and Northern Israel

Isaiah 17:1-14

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Chapter 17
1 Burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is removed from being a city, and it will be a ruin-heap. 2 The cities of Aroer will be abandoned for flocks, and they will lie down with none to alarm them. 3 I will cause the fortress to cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the sons of Israel, says the LORD of Hosts. 4 On that day the glory of Jacob will become thin, and the fat of his flesh will become lean. 5 And it will be like the gathering of harvest standing grain, and its seed ears he will reap, and it will be like a gleaner of ears in the Valley of Rephaim. 6 And a remnant remains in it like the gleaning of an olive tree: two or three berries at the head of its top, four or five in its branches—its fruit, says the LORD God of Israel. 7 On that day people will look to their maker, and their eyes will see the Holy One of Israel. 8 He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not see what his fingers made—the asherim and the chammans. 9 On that day the cities of refuge of his strength will be like the abandonment of the forest and the thicket that they forsook because of the sons of Israel, and it will be a desolation. 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your stronghold; therefore you will plant pleasant plantings and you will sow a pruning of a foreign one. 11 In the day you plant it, you will luxuriate, and in the morning your seed will cause to flourish—a wretched harvest in the day of inheritance, and pain of humanity. 12 Alas for the multitude of many peoples! Like the roaring of seas they will roar; the tumult of nations, like the tumult of mighty waters they will lift up. 13 Nations like the roaring tumult of many waters will bear it up, and he will rebuke it, and it will flee from afar and be driven like chaff of mountains before the wind and like a Gilgal before a tempest. 14 At the fixed time of evening, behold, terror before morning—it is not. This is the portion of our assailants and the lot for our pillagers.