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Isa. 17:1–18:7 The fourth oracle concerns the alliance between Damascus and Israel in Isaiah’s time (see 7:1–16; 8:1–4).
Isa. 17:1 Damascus will cease to be a city. It was destroyed by Assyria in 732 b.c., after a siege.
Isa. 17:2 None will make them afraid, not because peace exists but because the cities . . . are deserted.
Isa. 17:3 like the glory of the children of Israel. See vv. 4–6.
Isa. 17:4–11 The three uses of in that day unites these verses. Israel will be brought low (vv. 4–6), a remnant will return to God (vv. 7–8), and strong cities will be destroyed (v. 9). Verses 10–11 explain Israel’s fall as a spiritual, not a political, miscalculation.
Isa. 17:9 The Canaanites had deserted their cities centuries before because Israel trusted God to give them the land (see the book of Joshua). Now, Israel was foolishly trusting in the same human power that God had already defeated.
Isa. 17:12–14 Ah draws attention to the nations—mighty, restless, and destructive, but scattered by the mere rebuke of the sovereign God (see chs. 36–37).
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