Isa 17 | NASB2020 | STEP | The pronouncement 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 ^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.