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Oracle of Judgment on Damascus

17 An oracle of Damascus:

“Look! Damascus will cease being a city
    and will become a heap of ruins.
The cities of Aroer will be deserted;[a]
    they will be for the flocks,
        and they will lie down and no one will frighten[b] them.
And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and the kingdom from Damascus;
        and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,”

declares[c] Yahweh of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:2 These words in Hebrew (and “flocks” in the next line) all begin with the same letter, Ayin
  2. Isaiah 17:2 Literally “there is not one who frightens”
  3. Isaiah 17:3 Literally “declaration of”