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Isaiah 17:1

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

KJV

Onus Damasci. Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas, et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.

Vulgate

Τὸ ῥῆμα τὸ κατὰ Δαμασκοῦ. Ἰδοὺ Δαμασκὸς ἀρθήσεται ἀπὸ πόλεων, καὶ ἔσται εἰς πτῶσιν,

LXX

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

ASV

מַשָּׂ֖א דַּמָּ֑שֶׂק הִנֵּ֤ה דַמֶּ֨שֶׂק֙ מוּסָ֣ר מֵ/עִ֔יר וְ/הָיְתָ֖ה מְעִ֥י מַפָּלָֽה

Hebrew

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In this verse

Places Damascus

In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק
dmshq
proper_noun · 45×
הִנֵּ֥ה
hnh
pronoun · 838×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
מְעִ֥י
m'y
noun · 1×
מַפָּלָֽה
mplh
noun · 3×
מַשָּׂ֖א
msh'
noun · 65×
סָ֥ר
sr
verb · 301×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 9:2 — And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
  • Amos 1:3 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
  • Amos 1:3 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
  • Deut 13:16 — And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap f
  • Gen 14:15 — And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
  • Isa 7:8 — For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
  • Isa 7:8 — For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
  • Isa 21:1 — The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
  • Isa 25:2 — For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
  • Isa 25:2 — For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
  • Jer 49:2 — Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire
  • Jer 49:23 — Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
  • Mic 1:6 — Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
  • Zech 9:1 — The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.