Isaiah 17:1–11

Isaiah 17:1–113 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

1 An oracle concerning Damascus.
A 1b–3 Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus.
- B 4–6 The reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears; gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten.
  - C 7 Man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.
  - C' 8 He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and will not look on the Asherim or the altars of incense.
- B' 10–11 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation; though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.
A' 9 Their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops — desolation.

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