The West's Sanctions Hurting Innocent People In Syria, Feb. 14, 2023

 

If the center of earthquake had been Damascus, Syria,  the Isaiah 17 prophecy may have been fulfilled.

Isaiah 17

New King James Version

Proclamation Against Syria and Israel

17 The burden^[a] against Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.
^2 [b]The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid.
³ The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

⁴ “In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will ^[c]wane,
And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
⁵ It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.
⁶ Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the Lord God of Israel.

⁷ In that day a man will look to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
⁸ He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his fingers have made,
Nor the ^[d]wooden images nor the incense altars.

⁹ In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken ^[e]bough
And ^[f]an uppermost branch,
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.

¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your ^[g]stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;
¹¹ In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

¹² Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise like the roar of the seas,
And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
¹³ The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
¹⁴ Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
And before the morning, he is no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us,
And the lot of those who rob us.

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 17:1 oracle, prophecy
2. Isaiah 17:2 So with MT, Vg.; LXX It shall be forsaken forever; Tg. Its cities shall be forsaken and desolate
3. Isaiah 17:4 fade
4. Isaiah 17:8 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
5. Isaiah 17:9 LXX Hivites; Tg. laid waste; Vg. as the plows
6. Isaiah 17:9 LXX Amorites; Tg. in ruins; Vg. corn
7. Isaiah 17:10 refuge

Putin blasts West's 'dirty games', lashes EU's 'reluctance' to aid Syria after earthquake

Feb 10, 2023

Russia has slammed the West for its alleged reluctance in providing humanitarian aid to earthquake-hit Syria. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova blamed the West for its 'dirty games' as aid to the country has been slowed down due to sanctions. Targeting the Greek PM after he described the situation as 'delicate and complicated', the Russian official accused the EU leader of 'inhuman kind of logic.' This comes amid calls to lift the years-long sanctions on the war-torn and earthquake-hit country. Watch this video for more details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9VAHjBT25M

Areas of Turkey & Syria affected by the 7.8 earthquake