1 Proclamation about Damascus: Damascus will soon cease to be a city, it will become a heap of ruins.
2 Its towns, abandoned for ever, will be pastures for flocks; there they will rest with no one to disturb them.
3 Ephraim will be stripped of its defences and Damascus of its sovereignty; and the remnant of Aram will be treated like the glory of the Israelites -- declares Yahweh Sabaoth.
4 When that day comes, Jacob's glory will diminish, from being fat he will grow lean;
5 as when a reaper gathers in the standing corn, harvesting the ears of corn with his arm, or when they glean the ears in the Valley of Rephaim,
6 nothing will remain but pickings, as when an olive tree is beaten; two or three berries left on the topmost bough, four or five berries on the branches of the tree -- declares Yahweh, God of Israel.
7 That day, a man will look to his Creator and his eyes will turn to the Holy One of Israel.
8 He will no longer look to altars, his own handiwork, or to what his own fingers have made: the sacred poles and incense-altars.
9 That day, its cities of refuge will be abandoned as were the woods and heaths at the Israelites' advance: there will be desolation.
10 Since you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and failed to keep the Rock, your refuge, in mind, you plant pleasure-gardens, you sow exotic seeds;
11 the day you plant them, you get them to sprout, and, next morning, your seedlings are in flower; but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
12 Disaster! The thunder of vast hordes, a thunder like the thunder of the seas, the roar of nations roaring like the roar of mighty floods,
13 of nations roaring like the roar of ocean! He rebukes them and far away they flee, driven like chaff on the mountains before the wind, like an eddy of dust before the storm.
14 At evening all is terror, by morning all have disappeared. Such will be the lot of those who plunder us, such, the fate of our despoilers.
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Isaiah 17 talks about the prophecy of the destruction of Damascus. The chapter begins with the statement that Damascus will no longer be a city and become a lot of ruins. Then the prophet points out that Israel will also be affected by this destruction. The chosen verses are:
Amos 1:3-4: "Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke its punishment, because they walked the Gilead with iron rails. Therefore, I will set fire to the house of Hazael, which will consume the palaces of Ben-Hadade. " These verses show that the destruction of Damascus was a divine punishment for the evil that the city had committed, such as invading Gilead and subjugating its people.
Jeremiah 49:23-24: "About Damascus. Embarrassed is hamate and arpade, because they have heard bad news; they are discouraged. The sea is agitated, it cannot be quiet. Damascus has passed out, turned to flee, and the tremor took it; Anguish and pain have seized it, as of the woman who is in delivery. " These verses describe the anguish that took over Damascus when he learned of his imminent destruction.
Psalm 83:3-4: "Astrately plot against your people, and conspire against your protected. They say, Come, and to disrupt them so that they are not a nation, and there is no more memory of the name of Israel." These verses show that the enemies of Israel, such as Syria, were conspiring to destroy the nation.
Isaiah 7:8: "Because the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Effect (and within sixty -five years ephraim will be broken, so that no more people)." This verse makes a reference to the covenant between Syria and Israel, which was a threat to Judah at the time of Isaiah.
2 Kings 16:9: "And the King of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria upon Damascus climbed, and took it, bringing captive the people to Quir, and killing the Switch." This verse reports how the king of Assyria conquered Damascus and took his captive people to Quir, thus fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy.
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