Isaiah 17:3

The Passion Translation

Damascus will lose the power of her fortress, and the strongholds of the northern kingdom will disappear. The remnant of Syria will be like Israel—stripped of its glory,” says the Lord Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:9

Calneh will be no different than Carchemish, whom I destroyed. I’ll destroy Hamath as I did Arpad and make Samaria like Damascus.

Isaiah 16:14

but now the Lord Yahweh says, “In exactly three years, the splendor of Moab and her huge population will shrink to nothing; only a small and feeble remnant will remain.”

Isaiah 17:4

“On that day, the beautiful splendor of Jacob’s northern tribes will be brought low, and they will become like skin and bones.

Isaiah 25:2

The city that was once mighty you’ve turned into a heap of rubble; the fortified city now lies in ruins. The foreigner’s fortress is no more and will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 7:16

Yet even before that time comes for him to know good and evil, the lands of those two kings you dread will be deserted.”

Isaiah 7:8

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Sixty-five years from now the northern kingdom of Israel will be shattered, with nothing left of it.

Isaiah 8:4

For before the boy knows how to say ‘my father’ or ‘my mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and Samaria will be plundered and carried away by the king of Assyria!”