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\c 17
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\v 1 A declaration about Damascus.
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\q1
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\v 2 The cities of Aroer will be abandoned.
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\q1 They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will frighten them.
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\q1
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\v 3 Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, the kingdom from Damascus,
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\q1 and the remnant of Aram—they will be like the glory of the people of Israel—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
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\q1
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\v 4 It will come about on that day
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\q1 that the glory of Jacob will become thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
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\q1
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\v 5 It will be as when a harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the heads of grain.
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\q1 It will be as when one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
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\s5
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\v 6 Gleanings will be left, however, as when the olive tree is shaken:
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\q1 two or three olives in the top of the
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uppermost bough, four or five in the highest branches of a fruitful tree—this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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\v 7 On that day men will look toward their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
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\q1
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\v 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they look to what their fingers have made, the Asherah poles or the sun images.
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\q1
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\v 9 On that day their strong cities will be like the abandoned wooded slopes on the hill summits,
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\q1 that were forsaken because of the people of Israel and that will become a desolation.
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\q1
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\v 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have ignored the rock of your strength.
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\q1 So you plant pleasant plants, and set out vine branches received from a stranger,
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\q1
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\v 11 on the day you plant and hedge and cultivate. Soon your seed will grow,
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\q1 but the harvest will fail on a day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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\q1
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\v 12 Woe! The uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas,
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\q1 and the rushing of nations, that rush like the
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rushing of mighty waters!
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\q1
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\v 13 The nations will roar like the rushing of many waters,
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\q1 but God will rebuke them. They will flee far away
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\q1 and will be chased as the dead weeds on the mountains before the wind, and like weeds whirling before a storm.
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\q1
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\v 14 In the evening, see, terror! Before the morning they will be gone!
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\q1 This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who rob us.
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