Verse 1
Isaiah 17:1
Free Bible Version
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A message about Damascus. Look, Damascus will cease to exist as a city. Instead it will become a pile of ruins.
Original Language Text
hebrew
מַשָּׂ֖א דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק הִנֵּ֤ה דַמֶּ֨שֶׂק֙ מוּסָ֣ר מֵ/עִ֔יר וְ/הָיְתָ֖ה מְעִ֥י מַפָּלָֽה
English Translation
The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a heap of ruins.
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Chapter 17 Context
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A message about Damascus. Look, Damascus will cease to exist as a city. Instead it will become a pil...
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The towns of Aroer will be abandoned. Flocks will live in the streets and rest there, because there...
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The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, Damascus will no longer be a kingdom, and those that...
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At that time the glory of Jacob will fade away; he will lose his strength.
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It will look as empty as fields after reapers have harvested the grain, gathering up the grain in th...
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Yet there will be some left behind, like an olive tree that has been shaken—two or three ripe olives...
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They won't believe in the altars they built and the idols they made; they will not look to the Asher...
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At that time their fortified cities will be like places left to be taken over by bushes and trees, j...
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You have forgotten the God (Elohim) who saves you; you have not remembered the Rock who protects you...
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even though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and have them blossom in the morning...
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Disaster is coming to the many nations that growl, growling like the raging sea! Disaster is coming...
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The nations roar like the roaring of crashing waves. But he confronts them, and they run far away, b...
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Sudden terror comes in the evening! By morning, they're gone! This is what happens to those who loot...
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