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1 Guds budskab om Damaskus: „Se, Damaskus vil forsvinde. Byen bliver en ruindynge. 2 Aroers byer[1] bliver forladte, så fåreflokkene kan græsse frit i gaderne. Ingen vil forstyrre dem. 3 Nordrigets befæstede byer bliver også ødelagt, og Damaskus’ magt får ende. De få, som er tilbage i Aram, vil dele skæbne med Nordriget,” erklærer Herren, den Almægtige. 4 „Da vil Nordrigets tidligere herlighed høre en tåget fortid til, for hungersnød sætter ind. 5 Landet vil ligge øde hen som Refaimdalens stubmarker, efter at kornet er høstet. 6 Kun enkelte indbyggere bliver tilbage, ligesom de få oliven, der endnu sidder på et oliventræ efter høsten, et par stykker i toppen og nogle enkelte på de yderste grene,” siger Herren, Israels Gud. 7 Engang vil de erkende, at Herren er deres Skaber, og de vil vende tilbage til Israels hellige Gud. 8 Da vil de ikke længere bede afguderne om hjælp, dyrke deres menneskeskabte guder, tilbede og ofre til Asherapælene eller brænde røgelse på deres afgudsaltre. 9 Dine prægtige byer vil blive lagt i ruiner som en fældet skov på en bakketop,[2] akkurat som byerne blev lagt i ruiner, dengang israelitterne først indtog landet. Alt skal ligge øde hen. 10 Hvorfor? Fordi du har forladt den Gud, som kan frelse dig, og ikke ænser Klippen, hvor du kunne have søgt tilflugt. Du kan plante de bedste vinsorter,[3] 11 og selv om de skulle spire og blomstre, når du planter dem, så kommer du aldrig til at plukke druer fra dem. Du vil kun høste sorg og bitter smerte. 12 Hør larmen fra folkeslagenes hære. De larmer som havets oprørte bølger. 13 Men Gud truer ad dem, så de flygter langt bort. De jages som avner af bjergvinden, som tidselfrø for slettens hvirvelvind. 14 Aftenen er mættet af frygt, men før morgenen kommer, er fjenden borte. Sådan går det dem, der vil plyndre og gå på rov hos os. 

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Esajas 17

King James Version

1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 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. 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. 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. 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. 7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 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. 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. 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: 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. 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! 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. 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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