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Isaiah 17 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Isa 17:1The burden of Dammesek. Behold, Dammesek is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Isa 17:2The cities of `Aro`er are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Isa 17:3The fortress shall cease from Efrayim, and the kingdom from Dammesek, and the remnant of Aram; they shall be as the glory of the children of Yisra'el, says the LORD of Hosts.
Isa 17:4It shall happen in that day, that the glory of Ya`akov shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
Isa 17:5It shall be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears; yes, it shall be as when one gleans ears in the valley of Refa'im.
Isa 17:6Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el.
Isa 17:7In that day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Yisra'el.
Isa 17:8They shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Isa 17:9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Yisra'el; and it shall be a desolation.
Isa 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.
Isa 17:11In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isa 17:12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
Isa 17:13The 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.
Isa 17:14At evening, behold, terror; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
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