Isa 17 | NASB1995 | STEP | The oracle concerning Damascus . “ Behold , Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin .

Isaiah 17

Prophecy about Damascus

1 The ^{▼▼ Or burden of
,} ^boracle concerning ^cDamascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be ^dremoved from being a city
And will become a ^efallen ruin.
2 “The cities ^{▼▼ Gr reads forever and ever}of ^gAroer are forsaken;
They will be for ^hflocks ^{▼▼ Lit and they will lie down}to lie down in,
And there will be ^jno one to frighten them.
3 “The ^{▼▼ Or fortification
,} ^lfortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And ^{▼▼ Or royal power, kingdom}sovereignty from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the ⁿglory of the sons of Israel,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.

4 Now in that day the ^oglory of Jacob will ^{▼▼ Lit become thin}fade,
And ^qthe fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 It will be ^reven like the ^{▼▼ Lit gathering of the harvest, the standing grain}reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears,
Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the ^tvalley of Rephaim.
6 Yet ^ugleanings will be left in it like the ^{▼▼ Lit striking}shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost bough,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day man will ^whave regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 He will not have regard for the ^xaltars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his ^yfingers have made,
Even the ^{▼▼ I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
,} ^aaAsherim and ^{▼▼ Or sun pillars}incense stands.
9 In that day ^{▼▼ I.e. man’s}their strong cities will be like ^{▼▼ Gr reads the deserted places of the Amorites and the Hivites which they abandoned}forsaken places in the forest,
Or like ^{▼▼ Or the treetop}branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And ^{▼▼ Lit it}the land will be a desolation.
10 For ^agyou have forgotten the ^ahGod of your salvation
And have not remembered the ^airock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
11 In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the ^ajmorning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will ^ak be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

12 Alas, the uproar of many peoples
^alWho roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the ^amrumbling of mighty waters!
13 The ^annations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will ^aorebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased ^aplike chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
14 At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning ^aqthey are no more.
^{▼▼ Lit This}Such will be the portion of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.