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A Message about Damascus and Israel
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# Chapter 17
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1. This message came to me concerning Damascus:
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"Look, the city of Damascus will disappear!
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It will become a heap of ruins.
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2. The towns of Aroer will be deserted.
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Flocks will graze in the streets and lie down undisturbed,
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with no one to chase them away.
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3. The fortified towns of Israel will also be destroyed,
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and the royal power of Damascus will end.
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All that remains of Syria
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will share the fate of Israel's departed glory,"
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declares the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
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4. "In that day Israel's glory will grow dim;
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its robust body will waste away.
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5. The whole land will look like a grainfield
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after the harvesters have gathered the grain.
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It will be desolate,
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like the fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest.
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6. Only a few of its people will be left,
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like stray olives left on a tree after the harvest.
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Only two or three remain in the highest branches,
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four or five scattered here and there on the limbs,"
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declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
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7. Then at last the people will look to their Creator
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and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
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8. They will no longer look to their idols for help
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or worship what their own hands have made.
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They will never again bow down to their Asherah poles
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or worship at the pagan shrines they have built.
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9. Their largest cities will be like a deserted forest,
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like the land the Hivites and Amorites abandoned
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when the Israelites came here so long ago.
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It will be utterly desolate.
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10. Why? Because you have turned from the God who can save you.
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You have forgotten the Rock who can hide you.
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So you may plant the finest grapevines
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and import the most expensive seedlings.
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11. They may sprout on the day you set them out;
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yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them,
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but you will never pick any grapes from them.
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Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.
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12. Listen! The armies of many nations
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roar like the roaring of the sea.
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Hear the thunder of the mighty forces
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as they rush forward like thundering waves.
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13. But though they thunder like breakers on a beach,
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God will silence them, and they will run away.
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They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind,
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like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.
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14. In the evening Israel waits in terror,
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but by dawn its enemies are dead.
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This is the just reward of those who plunder us,
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a fitting end for those who destroy us.
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