1 Oracle on Damascus: Lo, Damascus shall cease to be a city and become a ruin;
2 Her cities shall be forever abandoned, given over to flocks to lie in undisturbed.
3 The fortress shall be lost to Ephraim and the kingdom to Damascus; The remnant of Aram shall have the same glory as the Israelites, says the LORD of hosts.
4 On that day The glory of Jacob shall fade, and his full body grow thin,
5 Like the reaper's mere armful of stalks when he gathers the standing grain; Or as when one gleans the ears in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Only a scattering of grapes shall be left! As when an olive tree has been beaten, Two or three olives remain at the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches, says the LORD, the God of Israel.
7 On that day man shall look to his maker, his eyes turned toward the Holy One of Israel.
8 He shall not look to the altars, his handiwork, nor shall he regard what his fingers have made: the sacred poles or the incense stands.
9 On that day his strong cities shall be like those abandoned by the Hivites and Amorites When faced with the children of Israel: they shall be laid waste.
10 For you have forgotten God, your savior, and remembered not the Rock, your strength. Therefore, though you plant your pagan plants and set out your foreign vine slips,
11 Though you make them grow the day you plant them and make your sprouts blossom on the next morning, The harvest shall disappear on the day of the grievous blow, the incurable blight.
12 Ah! the roaring of many peoples that roar like the roar of the seas! The surging of nations that surge like the surging of mighty waves!
13 But God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away; Windswept, like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweed in a storm.
14 In the evening, they spread terror, before morning, they are gone! Such is the portion of those who despoil us, the lot of those who plunder us.
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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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