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The burden of Dammeseq. “See, Dammeseq shall cease from being a city, and it shall become a heap of ruins.
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The cities of Aroer shall be abandoned. They shall be for flocks, and they shall lie down, with none causing them to tremble.
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And the fortress shall cease from Efrayim, and the kingdom from Dammeseq, and the remnant of Aram shall be like the glory of the sons of Yisra’el,” declares Yahuah of Hosts.
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“And it shall come to pass in that day that the glory of Yaaqov shall become thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.
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And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain, and his arm harvests the ears, and it shall be as one gathering ears in the Valley of Refa’im.
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Yet gleanings shall remain in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries at the top of the highest branch, four or five upon its fruitful branches,” declares Yahuah, Elohim of Yisra’el.
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In that day Adam shall look toward his Maker, and his eyes shall regard the Holy One of Yisra’el.
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And he shall not look toward the altars, the work of his own hands, nor regard what his fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.
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In that day his strong cities shall be like an abandoned place in the forest, and like a branch that they abandoned before the sons of Yisra’el, and there shall be desolation.
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For you have forgotten the Elohim of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plantings and set them with the branch of a foreign one.
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In the day you make your planting grow, and in the morning you cause your seed to blossom, yet the harvest shall flee away in the day of sickness and incurable pain.
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Woe to the multitude of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of seas, and to the tumult of nations, who make a tumult like the tumult of mighty waters.
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The nations make a tumult like the tumult of many waters, but He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away. And they shall be chased like chaff of the mountains before the ruach, and like rolling dust before the storm.
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At evening, see—terror. Before morning, he is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.