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"Damascus will no longer be a city. It will become a pile of rubble.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The cities of Aroer will be deserted. These cities will be used for sheep, which will lie down in them. There will be no one to disturb those sheep.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom will disappear from Damascus. The remaining few from Aram will share Israel's honor," declares the LORD of Armies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"When that day comes, the honor of Jacob's people will fade away, and they will become skin and bones.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>That time will be like harvesting bundles of grain by the armful. It will be like gathering grain in the Rephaim Valley.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Only a few people will survive. They will be like an olive tree that has been beaten. Only two or three olives are left at the top of the highest branch, four or five olives on the rest of the branches," declares the LORD God of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When that day comes, they will look to their maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They won't look to the altars made by their hands or to the Asherah poles or incense altars which their fingers molded.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When that day comes, the fortified cities which other people abandoned because of the Israelites will be like abandoned woods and undergrowth. So it will become a wasteland.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You have forgotten the God of your salvation. You haven't remembered the rock, your stronghold. Instead, you have planted the best plants and have set out the imported grapevines.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>On the day you plant, you will make it grow. On the morning you set out the seedling, you will make it sprout. But the harvest will become a [rotting] pile on a day of grief and incurable pain. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>How horrible it will be for many people! They will roar like the roaring sea. The noise that the people make will be like the noise from rushing water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The people will make noise like raging water. But the LORD will yell at them, and they will run far away. They will be chased away like husks on the mountains being blown by the wind, like whirling dust being blown by a storm.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In the evening there will be sudden terror. Before morning they will be gone. This will be the fate of those who looted us, the destiny of those who robbed us.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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