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Isaiah 17:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies. "

Isaiah 17:3

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1 The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies.

4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

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Amos 1:5

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"I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,” says the LORD."

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Hosea 5:9

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"Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be."

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Isaiah 7:8

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"For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people."

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Amos 5:27

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"Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Armies."

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Isaiah 24:23

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"Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of Armies will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders."

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Zechariah 9:1

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"A revelation. The LORD’s word is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus— for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward the LORD—"

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Isaiah 17:1

"The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap."

Isaiah 17:2

"The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid."

Isaiah 17:4

"“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean."

Isaiah 17:5

"It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim."

Isaiah 17:6

"Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel."

Isaiah 17:7

"In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel."

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