Комментарий к Йешайау 17:1

I shall be removed from being a city [The Hebrew denotes] an expression of removing.

מוסר Taken away. Comp. ¹Hiphil of סור to depart; מוסר is participle Hophal: caused to depart, or taken away.הסיר He took away (18:5).

removed from a city from being a city.

דמשק מוסר מעיר Damascus is taken away from being a city. Join מוסר with the feminine noun דמשק, although it has a masculine form. More correctly, however, דמשק may be taken as equal to עם דמשק the people of Damascus,²דמשק מוסר מעיר The people of Damascus will be taken away from the city. especially since in the phrase which follows,³That phrase undoubtedly refers to the city of Damascus. the feminine והיתה and she will be, is used.

a depth Heb. מְעִי, an expression of lowness and depth, like the depth of the seas (כִּמְעוֹת).

מעי Heap. Comp. לעיים to heaps (Ps. 79:1); the מ is not radical.