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Isaiah 17 · Grade 5

The Rock of Your Strength

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The oracle begins with Damascus but quickly includes Israel, because the two kingdoms had allied against Judah (Isaiah 7). Damascus would be "taken away from being a city," and the fortress would cease from Ephraim. Assyria fulfilled this when it conquered Damascus in 732 BC and Samaria in 722 BC Israel's glory would waste away "like when the harvester gathers the wheat."

Yet God preserves a remnant, like gleanings left in a field. The result is repentance: "In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel." They would no longer look to "the work of their hands," the Asherah poles and incense altars of false worship. True revival means turning from what we make to the One who made us.

Verse 10 diagnoses the root problem: "you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength." Israel planted "pleasant plants" and "foreign seedlings," pictures of seeking help from foreign gods, but yet "the harvest flees away in the day of grief." Verses 12-14 show the nations roaring like many waters, yet God rebukes them, and they vanish overnight: "This is the portion of those who plunder us." This anticipates God's rescue of Jerusalem from Assyria in Isaiah 37.

Show What You Know

  1. When did Assyria conquer Damascus and Samaria?

  2. What would the remnant turn away from?

  3. What do the pleasant plants and foreign seedlings picture?

  4. Which later event does verses 12-14 anticipate?

Crossword

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Across

  1. And have not remembered the ____ of your strength.
  2. Like the shaking of an ____ tree.

Down

  1. People will look to their ____.
  2. And their eyes will have respect for the ____ One of Israel.
  3. Like the shaking of an olive ____.

Think About It

  1. People will look to their Maker. What does it look like for you to turn from things people make to the God who made you?

  2. Israel forgot God in good times. What practices can help you remember the rock of your strength every day?

Memory Verse

“For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.”

Isaiah 17:10 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for being my Rock. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What happens when God rebukes the nations?
  • What habits can keep you close to God when life is easy?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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