Isaiah:17

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* The oracle on Damascus , Lo ! Damascus , is to be removed from being a city , And shall become a heap of ruins : * Forsaken , are the desolate cities , For flocks , shall they serve , Which shall lie down and have none to make them afraid . * Then shall the fortress cease from Ephraim , And the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of Syria , Like the glory of the sons of Israel , shall they be , Declareth Yahweh of hosts . * And it shall come to pass in that day , That the glory of Jacob , shall be diminished , And , the fatness of his flesh , shall be wasted ; * And it shall come to pass That , as the harvestman gathereth standing corn , And with his armthe ears , he reapeth , Yea it shall come to pass That , so , shall he be who gleaneth ears , in the vale of Rephaim ; * Yet shall there be left therein , a gleaning . As in the beating of an olive-tree , Two-three berries in the head of the tree-top , Fourfive , among her fruitful boughs , Declareth Yahweh God of Israel . * In that day , shall the son of earth look to him that made him , And his eyes unto the Holy One of Israel , be turned ; * And he shall not look unto the altars the work of his own hands , Nor to what his own fingers have made , shall his eye be turned , Whether Sacred Stems or Sun-pillars . * In that day , shall his fortified cities become Like a neglected bough and a topmost branch , Which they neglected because of the sons of Israel , So shall there be desolation . * Because thou didst forget the God of thy salvation , And thy Rock of refuge , thou didst not remember , For this cause , shalt thou plant very pleasant plants , And , the slip of a stranger , shalt thou set : * In the day when thou plantest , fence thou in , And in the morning , cause thou , they slip , to blossom , A harvest will have waved in the day of destiny , and mortal pain . * Alas ! the booming of many peoples , Like the booming of the seas , shall they boom , And the rushing of nations ! Like the rushing of mighty waters , shall they rush . * Though nations like the rushing of many waters , shall rush , Yet shall one rebuke him , And he shall flee far away , And be chased As the chaff of the mountains before a wind , And as whirling stubble before a storm ! * At eventide , lo ! terror , Before morning , he is not ! This , is the portion of them who plunder us , And the lot of them who make of us a prey .

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