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Isaiah 17 — Sermon Preparation
Damascus and Ephraim are condemned to ruin, but a remnant will look to their Maker rather than to man-made altars or idols. Below is a research summary for Isaiah 17, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 3
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Isaiah 17 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁאוֹן | shâʼôwn | H7588 | 3 | uproar, rushing |
| דַּמֶּשֶׂק | Dammeseq | H1834 | 3 | Damascus |
| אָמִיר | ʼâmîyr | H534 | 2 | summit |
| נֶטַע | neṭaʻ | H5194 | 2 | plant, plantation |
| עָזַב | ʻâzab | H5800 | 3 | loosen, relinquish |
| שָׁאָה | shâʼâh | H7582 | 2 | rush, desolate |
| שִׁבֹּל | shibbôl | H7641 | 2 | stream, ear of grain |
How preachers through history handled this text
3 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 17, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“THE HARVEST OF A GODLESS LIFE Because 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: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.'--ISAIAH xvii. 10, 11. The original application of these words is to Judah's alliance with Damascus, which Isaiah was dead against. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 17:10–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Damascus— Isa 17:1
- Aroer 1— Isa 17:2
- Syria 1— Isa 17:3
- Valley of Rephaim— Isa 17:5
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