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    Isaiah 17

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    The nations arrive with the sea’s uproar and leave on a clock: terror in the evening, nothing by morning.

    The city and the gleaningsvv. 1–6

    Damascus is reduced from city to heap, while Aroer’s cities are left to flocks with no one to frighten them. Ephraim loses its fortress, Damascus its sovereignty, and the remnant of Aram is brought alongside the splendor of the Israelites. Jacob’s splendour then fades like a field stripped by a reaper, though the olive tree keeps its tiny, counted reserve: not abundance, but “two or three” here and “four or five” there.

    The Maker rememberedvv. 7–11

    In that day, men turn their eyes to their Maker rather than to the altars and Asherahs made by their own hands and fingers. Yet the old arrangements have a sting in them: delightful plots are cultivated, exotic vines are planted, and the seed sprouts almost at once. The harvest, having been hurried into life, vanishes on the day of disease and incurable pain.

    A storm with a short engagementvv. 12–14

    The nations make the noise of a furious sea, a great deal of rumbling for a very brief appointment. They are rebuked and flee like chaff and tumbleweeds before the wind. By evening there is terror; before morning, the looters and plunderers are no more.

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    1. Isa 17:1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

    2. Isa 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

    3. Isa 17:3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

    4. Isa 17:4“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,

    5. Isa 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

    6. Isa 17:6Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

    7. Isa 17:7In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

    8. Isa 17:8They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.

    9. Isa 17:9In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

    10. Isa 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

    11. Isa 17:11though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

    12. Isa 17:12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.

    13. Isa 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

    14. Isa 17:14In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.

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    • 7Micah 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
    • 1Amos 1:3–5This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
    • 2Ezekiel 25:5I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
    • 5Matthew 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
    • 10Deuteronomy 32:18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
    • 10Isaiah 26:4Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
    • 10Psalms 106:21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
    • 10Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
    • 1Zechariah 9:1This is the burden of the word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting place—for the eyes of men and of all the tribes of Israel are upon the LORD—
    • 2Zephaniah 2:6So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
    • 2Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
    • 2Jeremiah 7:33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
    • 3Isaiah 7:16For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
    • 3Hosea 9:11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
    • 3Isaiah 8:4For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
    • 4Isaiah 10:16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.

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