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Chapter 17, The Burden of Damascus.

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Behold, Damascus is taken away from being
a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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The cities of Baroah are forsaken,
they shall be for flocks, which shall lie

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down, and none shall make them afraid.

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The fortress also shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,

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and the remnant of Syria.

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They shall be as the glory of the children
of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

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And in that day it shall come to pass,
that the glory of Jacob shall be made

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thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall
wax lean.

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And it shall be as when the harvestman
gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears

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with his arm.

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And it shall be as he that gathereth ears
in the valley of Rephaim.

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Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it,
as the shaking of an olive tree,

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two or three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four or five in the

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outermost fruitful branches thereof,
saith the Lord God of Israel.

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At that day shall a man look to his Maker,
and his eyes shall have respect to the

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Holy One of Israel.

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And he shall not look to the altars,
the work of his hands, neither shall

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respect that which his fingers have made,
either the groves or the images.

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In that day shall his strong cities be as
a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch,

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which they left because of the children of
Israel.

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And there shall be desolation,
because thou hast forgotten the God of thy

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salvation, and hast not been mindful of
the rock of thy strength.

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Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant
plants, and shalt set it with strange

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slips.

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In the day shalt thou make thy plant to
grow, and in the morning shalt thou make

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thy seed to flourish.

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But the harvest shall be a heap in the day
of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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Woe to the multitude of many people,
which make a noise like the noise of the

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seas, and to the rushing of nations,
that make a rushing like the rushing of

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mighty waters.

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The nations shall rush like the rushing of
many waters, but God shall rebuke them,

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and they shall flee far off, and shall be
chased as the chaff of the mountains

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before the wind, and like a rolling thing
before the whirlwind.

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And behold at eventide trouble,
and before the morning he is not.

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This is the portion of them that spoil us,
and the lot of them that rob us.