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16.14
ISAIAH
years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall wax contemptible for all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength.'
17The burden of Damascus.
- Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city,
- And it shall be a ruinous heap.
- 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
- They shall be for flocks,
- Which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
- 3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim,
- And the kingdom from Damascus;
- And the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,
- Saith the Lord of hosts.
- 4And it shall come to pass in that day,
- That the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,
- And the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
- 5And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn,
- And reapeth the ears with his arm;
- Yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears
- In the valley of Rephaim.
- 6Yet there shall be left therein gleanings,
- As at the beating of an olive-tree,
- Two or three berries
- In the top of the uppermost bough,
- Four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree,
- Saith the Lord, the God of Israel.
- 7In that day shall a man regard his Maker,
- And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
- 8And he shall not regard the altars,
- The work of his hands,
- Neither shall he look to that which his fingers have made,
- Either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
9In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.
- 10For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
- And thou hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy stronghold;
- Therefore thou didst plant plants of pleasantness,
- And didst set it with slips of a stranger;
- 11In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow,
- And in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom—
- A heap of boughs in the day of grief
- And of desperate pain.
- 12Ah, the uproar of many peoples,
- That roar like the roaring of the seas;
- And the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
- 13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters;
- But He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off,
- And shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
- And like the whirling dust before the storm.
- 14At eventide behold terror;
- And before the morning they are not.
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