Isaiah:17
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The burden of Damascus .
Behold ,
Damascus is taken away from being a city ,
and it shall be a ruinous heap .
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The cities of Aroer are forsaken :
they shall be for flocks ,
which shall lie down ,
and none shall make them afraid .
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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim ,
and the kingdom from Damascus ,
and the remnant of Syria :
they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel ,
says the LORD of hosts .
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And in that day it shall come to pass ,
that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin ,
and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean .
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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn ,
and reaps the ears with his arm ;
and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim .
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Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it ,
as the shaking of an olive tree ,
two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough ,
four or five in the utmost fruitful branches thereof ,
says the LORD God of Israel .
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At that day shall a man look to his Maker ,
and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel .
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And he shall not look to the altars ,
the work of his hands ,
neither shall respect that which his fingers have made ,
either the groves ,
or the images .
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In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough ,
and an uppermost branch ,
which they left because of the children of Israel :
and there shall be desolation .
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Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation ,
and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength ,
therefore shall you plant pleasant plants ,
and shall set it with strange slips :
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In the day shall you make your plant to grow ,
and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish :
but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow .
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Woe to the multitude of many people ,
which make a noise like the noise of the seas ;
and to the rushing of nations ,
that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters !
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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters :
but God shall rebuke them ,
and they shall flee far off ,
and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind ,
and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind .
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And behold at evening-time trouble ;
and before the morning he is not .
This is the portion of them that spoil us ,
and the lot of them that rob us .