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The Prophecy
of Isaias 17
The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease
to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.
The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they
shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them
afraid.
And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus: and the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory
of the children of Israel: saith the Lord of hosts.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory
of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his
flesh shall grow lean.
And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest
that which remaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears
of corn: and it shall be as he that seeketh ears in
the vale of Raphaim.
And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall
be as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the
olive tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough,
or four or five upon the top of the tree, saith the
Lord the God of Israel.
In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker,
and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
And he shall not look to the altars which his hands
made: and he shall not have respect to the things that
his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.
In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as
the ploughs, and the corn that were left before the
face of the children of Israel, and thou shalt be desolate.
Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast
not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou
plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.
In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape,
and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest
is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve
thee much.
Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude
of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the
noise of many waters.
Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters
overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee
far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of
the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before
a tempest.
In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble:
the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is
the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot
of them that spoiled us. |