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Isaiah Chapter 17

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The chapter describes the downfall of Tyre, a proud and wealthy city, whose reliance on idolatry and self‑esteem leads to its destruction. It serves as a warning that human pride and false worship bring ruin.

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(1) The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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Isaiah 15:1Isaiah 19:1Isaiah 7:8Genesis 14:15Genesis 15:2I Kings 11:24I Chronicles 18:5II Chronicles 28:5II Chronicles 28:23Jeremiah 49:23Jeremiah 49:24Jeremiah 49:25

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I Kings 11:24II Kings 16:10II Kings 16:11Isaiah 7:8II Kings 8:9Zechariah 9:1

(2) The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
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Numbers 32:34Deuteronomy 2:36Deuteronomy 3:12Joshua 13:16Jeremiah 48:19Isaiah 5:17Isaiah 7:23Isaiah 7:24Isaiah 7:25Ezekiel 25:5Zephaniah 2:6Jeremiah 7:33

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(3) The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 7:8Isaiah 7:16Isaiah 8:4Isaiah 10:9II Kings 16:9II Kings 17:6Hosea 1:4Hosea 1:6Hosea 3:4Hosea 5:13Hosea 5:14Hosea 8:8

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Isaiah 7:8Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13Zechariah 1:3Zechariah 8:6

(4) And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
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Isaiah 9:8Isaiah 9:21Isaiah 10:4Isaiah 10:16Isaiah 24:13Isaiah 24:16Deuteronomy 32:15Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17Deuteronomy 32:18Deuteronomy 32:19Deuteronomy 32:20

(5) And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
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Jeremiah 9:22Jeremiah 51:33Hosea 6:11Joel 3:13Matthew 13:30Matthew 13:39Matthew 13:40Matthew 13:41Matthew 13:42Revelation 14:15Revelation 14:16Revelation 14:17

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Leviticus 2:14Genesis 41:7Genesis 41:24Deuteronomy 23:25II Samuel 3:19Isaiah 6:10

(6) Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
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Isaiah 1:9Isaiah 10:22Isaiah 24:13Deuteronomy 4:27Judges 8:2I Kings 19:18Ezekiel 36:8Ezekiel 36:9Ezekiel 36:10Ezekiel 36:11Ezekiel 36:12Ezekiel 36:13

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Ezekiel 48:16Romans 11:24Nehemiah 8:15Isaiah 24:13Romans 11:17Genesis 49:22

(7) At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 10:20Isaiah 10:21Isaiah 19:22Isaiah 22:11Isaiah 24:14Isaiah 24:15Isaiah 29:18Isaiah 29:19Isaiah 29:24Judges 10:15Judges 10:16II Chronicles 30:10

(8) And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
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Isaiah 1:29Isaiah 2:18Isaiah 2:19Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 2:21Isaiah 27:9Isaiah 30:22II Chronicles 34:6II Chronicles 34:7Ezekiel 36:25Hosea 14:8Zephaniah 1:3

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II Chronicles 34:4Deuteronomy 7:5Exodus 34:13Deuteronomy 12:3II Kings 11:18II Chronicles 14:3

(9) In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
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Isaiah 17:4Isaiah 17:5Isaiah 6:11Isaiah 6:12Isaiah 6:13Isaiah 7:16Isaiah 7:17Isaiah 7:18Isaiah 7:19Isaiah 7:20Isaiah 9:9Isaiah 9:10

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Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(10) Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
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Isaiah 51:13Deuteronomy 6:12Deuteronomy 8:11Deuteronomy 8:14Deuteronomy 8:19Psalms 9:17Psalms 106:13Psalms 106:21Jeremiah 2:32Jeremiah 17:13Hosea 2:13Hosea 2:14

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Psalms 18:2Psalms 62:7Isaiah 12:2II Samuel 22:47

(11) In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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Isaiah 18:5Isaiah 18:6Job 4:8Jeremiah 5:31Hosea 8:7Hosea 9:1Hosea 9:2Hosea 9:3Hosea 9:4Hosea 9:16Hosea 10:12Hosea 10:13

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Matthew 13:30Luke 10:2Genesis 31:52

(12) Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
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Isaiah 9:5Isaiah 5:26Isaiah 5:27Isaiah 5:28Isaiah 5:29Isaiah 5:30Isaiah 8:7Isaiah 8:8Isaiah 28:17Psalms 18:4Psalms 46:1Psalms 46:2

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Ezekiel 3:13Ezekiel 1:24II Kings 7:6Ezra 3:13Psalms 65:7Isaiah 13:4

(13) The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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Isaiah 10:15Isaiah 10:16Isaiah 10:33Isaiah 10:34Isaiah 14:25Isaiah 25:4Isaiah 25:5Isaiah 27:1Isaiah 30:30Isaiah 30:31Isaiah 30:32Isaiah 30:33

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Isaiah 17:12I Kings 19:11Zechariah 14:5Isaiah 30:17Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13

(14) And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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Isaiah 10:28Isaiah 10:29Isaiah 10:30Isaiah 10:31Isaiah 10:32II Kings 19:3II Kings 19:35Psalms 37:36Isaiah 33:1Judges 5:31Job 20:29Proverbs 22:23

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Ezekiel 45:7

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