Isaiah 17:1-5

An Oracle Concerning Damascus

1An aoracle concerning bDamascus.

Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2The cities of cAroer are deserted;
they will be for flocks,
which will lie down, and dnone will make them afraid.
3The fortress will disappear from eEphraim,
and the kingdom from fDamascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like gthe glory of the children of Israel,

declares the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day hthe glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and ithe fat of his flesh will grow lean.
5And it shall be jas when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in kthe Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17:9-11

9 lIn that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

10 For myou have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the nRock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
11though you make them grow
Or  though you carefully fence them
on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away
Or  will be a heap

in a day of grief and incurable pain.
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