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Text -- Isaiah 17:1-14 (NET)
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The Lord Will Judge Damascus
17:1 Here is a message about Damascus : “Look , Damascus is no longer a city , it is a heap of ruins !
17:2 The cities of Aroer are abandoned . They will be used for herds , which will lie down there in peace .
17:3 Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim , and Damascus will lose its kingdom . The survivors in Syria will end up like the splendor of the Israelites ,” says the Lord who commands armies .
17:4 “At that time Jacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished , and he will become skin and bones .
17:5 It will be as when one gathers the grain harvest , and his hand gleans the ear of grain . It will be like one gathering the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim .
17:6 There will be some left behind , like when an olive tree is beaten – two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top , four or five on its fruitful branches ,” says the Lord God of Israel .
17:7 At that time men will trust in their creator ; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel .
17:8 They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made , or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made .
17:9 At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites ; there will be desolation .
17:10 For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector . So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines .
17:11 The day you begin cultivating , you do what you can to make it grow ; the morning you begin planting , you do what you can to make it sprout . Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain .
17:12 The many nations massing together are as good as dead , those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves . The people making such an uproar are as good as dead, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves .
17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves , when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land , driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills , or like dead thistles before a strong gale .
17:14 In the evening there is sudden terror ; by morning they vanish . This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
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NET Notes -> Isa 17:2; Isa 17:2; Isa 17:3; Isa 17:4; Isa 17:4; Isa 17:4; Isa 17:7; Isa 17:7; Isa 17:7; Isa 17:7; Isa 17:8; Isa 17:8; Isa 17:9; Isa 17:9; Isa 17:10; Isa 17:10; Isa 17:10; Isa 17:11; Isa 17:11; Isa 17:12; Isa 17:12; Isa 17:12; Isa 17:12; Isa 17:13; Isa 17:13; Isa 17:13; Isa 17:14; Isa 17:14; Isa 17:14
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NET Notes: Isa 17:8 Heb “and that which his fingers made he will not see, the Asherah poles and the incense altars.”
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NET Notes: Isa 17:9 The Hebrew text reads literally, “like the abandonment of the wooded height and the top one.” The following relative clause appears to all...
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NET Notes: Isa 17:10 Heb “a vine, a strange one.” The substantival adjective זָר (zar) functions here as an appositional genitive. It could r...
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NET Notes: Isa 17:11 The Hebrew text has, “a heap of harvest.” However, better sense is achieved if נֵד (ned, “heap”) is emended ...
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