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1. This is a message about Damascus: "The city of Damascus will be destroyed; only ruins will remain.
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1. The burden H4853 of Damascus H1834 . Behold H2009 , Damascus H1834 is taken away H5493 from being a city H4480 H5892 , and it shall be H1961 a ruinous H4654 heap H4596 .
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2. People will leave the cities of Aroer. Flocks will wander freely in those empty towns, and there will be no one to bother them.
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2. The cities H5892 of Aroer H6177 are forsaken H5800 : they shall be H1961 for flocks H5739 , which shall lie down H7257 , and none H369 shall make them afraid H2729 .
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3. The strong, walled cities of Israel will be destroyed. The government in Damascus will end. like the glory of Israel," says the Lord All-Powerful.
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3. The fortress H4013 also shall cease H7673 from Ephraim H4480 H669 , and the kingdom H4467 from Damascus H4480 H1834 , and the remnant H7605 of Syria H758 : they shall be H1961 as the glory H3519 of the children H1121 of Israel H3478 , saith H5002 the LORD H3068 of hosts H6635 .
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4. "At that time Israel's wealth will all be gone. Israel will be like someone who has lost much weight from sickness.
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4. And in that H1931 day H3117 it shall come to pass H1961 , that the glory H3519 of Jacob H3290 shall be made thin H1809 , and the fatness H4924 of his flesh H1320 shall wax lean H7329 .
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5. That time will be like the grain harvest in the Valley of Rephaim. The workers cut the wheat. Then they cut the heads of grain from the plants and collect the grain.
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5. And it shall be H1961 as when the harvest man H7105 gathereth H622 the corn H7054 , and reapeth H7114 the ears H7641 with his arm H2220 ; and it shall be H1961 as he that gathereth H3950 ears H7641 in the valley H6010 of Rephaim H7497 .
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6. That time will also be like the olive harvest, when a few olives are left. Two or three olives are left in the top branches. Four or five olives are left on full branches," says the Lord, the God of Israel.
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6. Yet gleaning grapes H5955 shall be left H7604 in it , as the shaking H5363 of an olive tree H2132 , two H8147 or three H7969 berries H1620 in the top H7218 of the uppermost bough H534 , four H702 or five H2568 in the outermost fruitful H6509 branches H5585 thereof, saith H5002 the LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478 .
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7. At that time people will look to God, their Maker; their eyes will see the Holy One of Israel.
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7. At that H1931 day H3117 shall a man H120 look H8159 to H5921 his Maker H6213 , and his eyes H5869 shall have respect H7200 to H413 the Holy One H6918 of Israel H3478 .
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8. They will not trust the altars they have made, nor will they trust what their hands have made, not even the Asherah idols and altars.
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8. And he shall not H3808 look H8159 to H413 the altars H4196 , the work H4639 of his hands H3027 , neither H3808 shall respect H7200 that which H834 his fingers H676 have made H6213 , either the groves H842 , or the images H2553 .
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9. In that day all their strong cities will be empty. They will be like the cities the Hivites and the Amorites left when the Israelites came to take the land. Everything will be ruined.
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9. In that H1931 day H3117 shall his strong H4581 cities H5892 be H1961 as a forsaken H5800 bough H2793 , and an uppermost branch H534 , which H834 they left H5800 because H4480 H6440 of the children H1121 of Israel H3478 : and there shall be H1961 desolation H8077 .
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10. You have forgotten the God who saves you; you have not remembered that God is your place of safety. You plant the finest grapevines and grapevines from faraway places.
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10. Because H3588 thou hast forgotten H7911 the God H430 of thy salvation H3468 , and hast not H3808 been mindful H2142 of the rock H6697 of thy strength H4581 , therefore H5921 H3651 shalt thou plant H5193 pleasant H5282 plants H5194 , and shalt set H2232 it with strange H2114 slips H2156 :
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11. You plant your grapevines one day and try to make them grow, and the next day you make them blossom. But at harvest time everything will be dead; a sickness will kill all the plants.
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11. In the day H3117 shalt thou make thy plant H5194 to grow H7735 , and in the morning H1242 shalt thou make thy seed H2233 to flourish H6524 : but the harvest H7105 shall be a heap H5067 in the day H3117 of grief H2470 and of desperate H605 sorrow H3511 .
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12. Listen to the many people! Their crying is like the noise from the sea. Listen to the nations! Their crying is like the crashing of great waves.
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12. Woe H1945 to the multitude H1995 of many H7227 people H5971 , which make a noise H1993 like the noise H1993 of the seas H3220 ; and to the rushing H7588 of nations H3816 , that make a rushing H7582 like the rushing H7588 of mighty H3524 waters H4325 !
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13. The people roar like the waves, but when God speaks harshly to them, they will run away. They will be like chaff on the hills being blown by the wind, or like tumbleweeds blown away by a storm.
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13. The nations H3816 shall rush H7582 like the rushing H7588 of many H7227 waters H4325 : but God shall rebuke H1605 them , and they shall flee H5127 far off H4480 H4801 , and shall be chased H7291 as the chaff H4671 of the mountains H2022 before H6440 the wind H7307 , and like a rolling thing H1534 before H6440 the whirlwind H5492 .
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14. At night the people will be very frightened. Before morning, no one will be left. So our enemies will come to our land, but they will become nothing.
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14. And behold H2009 at eveningtide H6256 H6153 trouble H1091 ; and before H2962 the morning H1242 he is not H369 . This H2088 is the portion H2506 of them that spoil H8154 us , and the lot H1486 of them that rob H962 us.
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