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# Isaiah 17 (New King James Version)
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Proclamation Against Syria and Israel
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##### Chapter 17
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###### 1 The burden against Damascus.
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"Behold, Damascus will cease from _being_ a city,
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And it will be a ruinous heap.
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###### 2 The cities of Aroer _are_ forsaken;
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They will be for flocks
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Which lie down, and no one will make _them_ afraid.
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###### 3 The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
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The kingdom from Damascus,
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And the remnant of Syria;
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They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,"
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Says the Lord of hosts.
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###### 4 "In that day it shall come to pass
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_That_ the glory of Jacob will wane,
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And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
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###### 5 It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
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And reaps the heads with his arm;
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It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
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In the Valley of Rephaim.
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###### 6 Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
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Like the shaking of an olive tree,
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Two _or_ three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
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Four _or_ five in its most fruitful branches,"
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Says the Lord God of Israel.
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###### 7 In that day a man will look to his Maker,
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And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
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###### 8 He will not look to the altars,
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The work of his hands;
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He will not respect what his fingers have made,
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Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.
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###### 9 In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough
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And an uppermost branch,
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Which they left because of the children of Israel;
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And there will be desolation.
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###### 10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
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And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold,
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Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
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And set out foreign seedlings;
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###### 11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,
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And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
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_But_ the harvest _will be_ a heap of ruins
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In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
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###### 12 Woe to the multitude of many people
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_Who_ make a noise like the roar of the seas,
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And to the rushing of nations
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_That_ make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
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###### 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
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But _God_ will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
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And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
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Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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###### 14 Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
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_And_ before the morning, he _is_ no more.
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This _is_ the portion of those who plunder us,
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And the lot of those who rob us.
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