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Isaiah 17:1 (show verse)
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Isaiah 17:2 (show verse)
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.
Isaiah 17:3 (show verse)
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, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Isaiah 17:4 (show verse)
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 become lean.
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Isaiah 17:5 (show verse)
And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Agriculture » Products of » Grain
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
Grain » Grain
Harvest » Persons engaged in » Called harvest-men
Reaping » Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to
Rephaim » A valley; the boundary between the territories of judah and benjamin » The productiveness of
Giants » The valley of » Was exceedingly fruitful
Valleys » Mentioned in scripture » Rephaim or giants
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
Grain » Grain
Harvest » Persons engaged in » Called harvest-men
Reaping » Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to
Rephaim » A valley; the boundary between the territories of judah and benjamin » The productiveness of
Giants » The valley of » Was exceedingly fruitful
Valleys » Mentioned in scripture » Rephaim or giants
Isaiah 17:6 (show verse)
And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 17:7 (show verse)
In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 17:8 (show verse)
And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.
Isaiah 17:9 (show verse)
In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.
Isaiah 17:10 (show verse)
For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:
Isaiah 17:11 (show verse)
in the day of thy planting wilt thou make them to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; but the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable.
Isaiah 17:12 (show verse)
Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas; and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters.
Isaiah 17:13 (show verse)
The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:
Armies » Marched » With noise and tumult
Chaff » Figurative
Meteorology » Whirlwind » Symbol of the sudden destruction of the wicked
Water » Illustrative » Of hostile armies
Whirlwind » Symbol of the sudden destruction of the wicked
Whirlwind » Illustrative of the » Sudden destruction of the wicked
The wicked » Compared to chaff
Chaff » Figurative
Meteorology » Whirlwind » Symbol of the sudden destruction of the wicked
Water » Illustrative » Of hostile armies
Whirlwind » Symbol of the sudden destruction of the wicked
Whirlwind » Illustrative of the » Sudden destruction of the wicked
The wicked » Compared to chaff
Isaiah 17:14 (show verse)
behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.