Holy Scripture

Isaiah 17:9

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 9) On that day, her fortified cities will be abandoned like plowed fields and empty after the harvest. They will become a wasteland, just like the cities of the Israelites that were abandoned before them. This prophecy is not against Damascus, but against the ten tribes known as Israel. Just as when the people…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

9In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Hivites deserted theirs, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.

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In context

7In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

8And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.

— Isaiah 17:9 —

10Because thou hast forsaken God thy Savior, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper; therefore shalt thou plant a false plant, and a false seed.

11In the day wherein thou shalt plant thou shalt be deceived; but if thou sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein thou shalt obtain an inheritance, and as a man’s father, thou shalt obtain an inheritance for thy sons.

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