Isaiah 17:2

Proclamation Against Syria and Israel

1 The ^aburden against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of ^aAroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and ^bno one will make them afraid.

3 ^aThe fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

4 “In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will¹ wane,
And ^athe fatness of his flesh grow lean.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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The cities of Aroer are forsaken "The cities are deserted for ever" - What has Aroer on the river Arnon to do with Damascus? and if there be another Aroer on the northern border of the tribe of Gad, as Reland seems to think there might be, this is not much more to the purpose. Besides, the cities of Aroer, if Aroer itself is a city, makes no good sense. The Septuagint, for aroer , read adey AD , , for ever, or for a long duration. The Chaldee takes the word for a verb from arah , translating it cherebu , devastabuntur , "they shall be wasted." The Syriac read adoeir . So that the reading is very doubtful. I follow the Septuagint as making the plainest sense.

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