Isaiah 17

Prophecy about Damascus

1 The apronouncement concerning bDamascus:

Behold, Damascus is about to be cremoved from being a city
And will become a dfallen ruin.
2 “The cities
LXX forever and ever
of fAroer are abandoned;
They will be for gherds
Lit and they will lie down
to lie down in,
And there will be ino one to frighten them.
3 “The
Or fortification
,
kfortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And
Or royal power
sovereignty from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the mglory of the sons of Israel,”
Declares the Lord of armies.

4 Now on that day the nglory of Jacob will
Lit become little
fade,
And pthe fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 It will be qlike 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 sValley of Rephaim.
6 Yet tgleanings will be left in it like the
Lit striking
shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost branch,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 On that day man will vlook to his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he will not look to the waltars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his xfingers have made,
Even the
I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
,
zAsherim and incense altars.
9 On that day
Lit his; i.e., mankind’s
their strong cities will be like
LXX the deserted places of the Amorites and the Hivites which they abandoned
abandoned places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And
Lit it
the land will be a desolation.
10 For adyou have forgotten the aeGod of your salvation
And have not remembered the afrock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.
11 On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the agmorning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will ahflee
On a day of illness and incurable pain.

12 Oh, the uproar of many peoples
aiWho roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the ajrumbling of mighty waters!
13 The aknations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will alrebuke them, and they will flee far away,
And be chased amlike chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
14 At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning anthey are gone.
This will be the
Lit portion
fate of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.
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