The Fall of Damascus (Syria)
Isaiah 17
- Damascus will fall (v 1-3)
- Israel will be judged, too (v 4-6)
- A remnant shall survive (v 7-8)
- The reason for this judgment? Forgetting God (Isaiah 17:10)
Isaiah 18
- The nation beyond the rivers, traveling by sea in vessels of bulrushes (v 1-2). Egypt?
- God will do something (v 3-4) before harvest time (v 5-6). Will he save Egypt and her Israelite refugees?
- If so, then Egypt and the Jews in hiding should thank God for His mercy (v 7)
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Isaiah 17:10
10Because 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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