The burden of
Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
02 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall
be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none
shall make them afraid.
03 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 the Lord of hosts.
04 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 wax lean.
05 And it shall be as when the harvestman
gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his
arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in
the valley of Rephaim.
06 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as
the shaking of an olive tree, two or three
berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four
or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof,
saith the Lord God of Israel.
07 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and
his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of
Israel.
08 And he shall not look to the altars, the work
of his hands, neither shall respect that which
his fingers have made, either the groves, or the
images.
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09 In that day shall his strong cities be as a
forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which
they left because of the children of Israel: and
there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy
salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock
of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow,
and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to
flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the
day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which
make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to
the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like
the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of
many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they
shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the
chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like
a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before
the morning he is not. This is the portion of
them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob
us.
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