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Thursday, May 15, 2014

We Should Never Forget JESUS Our Savior





Isaiah 17:1-14 NIV





A Prophecy Against Damascus






1A prophecy against Damascus:


“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.




2The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
3The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”


Declares The LORD ALMIGHTY.



4“In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste away.
5It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”


Declares The LORD, The GOD of Israel.


7 In that day people will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to The HOLY ONE of Israel.

8They will not look to the altars,
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles




and the incense altars their fingers have made.

9In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.

10 You have forgotten GOD your SAVIOR;
you have not remembered The ROCK, your FORTRESS.

Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,
11though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.

12Woe to the many nations that rage—
they rage like the raging sea!
Woe to the peoples who roar—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!
13Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
When HE Rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.


14 In the evening, sudden terror!




Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.











This chapter contains a prophecy of the ruin of Syria and Israel, the ten tribes; who were in alliance; and also of the overthrow of the Assyrian army, that should come against Judah.


The destruction of Damascus, the metropolis of Syria, and of other cities, is threatened, Isaiah 17:1 of the whole kingdom of Syria, together with Ephraim or the ten tribes, and Samaria the head of them, Isaiah 17:3 whose destruction is expressed by various similes, as by thinness and leanness, and by the reaping and gathering of corn, Isaiah 17:4 and yet a remnant should be preserved, compared to gleaning gapes, and a few berries on an olive tree, who should look to The Lord, and not to idols, Isaiah 17:6 and the reason of the desolation of their cities, and of their fields and vineyards, was their forgetfulness of The Lord, Isaiah 17:9 and the chapter is closed with a prophecy of the defeat of the Assyrian army, who are compared for their multitude and noise to the seas, and to mighty waters, and the noise and rushing of them, Isaiah 17:12 and yet should be, at the rebuke of GOD, as chaff, or any small light thing, before a blustering wind, Isaiah 17:13 and who, in the evening, would be a trouble to the Jews, and be dead before morning; which was to be the portion of the spoilers and plunderers of The Lord's people, Isaiah 17:14.








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