Isaiah 17
17
Proclamation Against Syria and Israel
1The #Gen. 14:15; 15:2; 2 Kin. 16:9; Jer. 49:23; Amos 1:3–5; Zech. 9:1; Acts 9:2burden against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.
2The cities of #Num. 32:34Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and #Jer. 7:33no one will make them afraid.
3#Is. 7:16; 8:4The 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 wane,
And #Is. 10:16the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
5#Is. 17:11; Jer. 51:33; Joel 3:13; Matt. 13:30It 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#Deut. 4:27; Is. 24:13; Obad. 5Yet 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.
7In that day a man will #Is. 10:20; Hos. 3:5; Mic. 7:7look to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his #Is. 2:8; 31:7fingers have made,
Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.
9In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough
And an uppermost branch,
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.
10Because you have forgotten #Ps. 68:19; Is. 51:13the God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;
11In 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.
12Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise #Is. 5:30; Jer. 6:23; Ezek. 43:2; Luke 21:25like the roar of the seas,
And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will #Ps. 9:5; Is. 41:11rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And #Ps. 83:13; Hos. 13:3be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14Then 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.
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Yesha 'yahu (Isa) 17
17
1This is a prophecy about Dammesek:
“Dammesek will soon stop being a city;
it will become a heap of ruins.
2The cities of ‘Aro‘er will be abandoned,
given over to flocks lying down undisturbed.
3Efrayim will have no defenses,
Dammesek will cease to rule,
and Aram’s survivors will share the fate
of Isra’el’s finest sons,”
says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
4“When that day comes, Ya‘akov’s glory will wane,
and his full body grow thin,
5as when the harvester collects the standing grain,
reaping the ears of grain with his arm;
yes, as when they glean the grain
in the Refa’im Valley.
6Yet gleanings will be left,
as when beating an olive tree —
two or three olives at the very top,
four or five on its fruitful branches,”
says Adonai, the God of Isra’el.
7On that day, a person will heed his Maker
and turn his eyes toward the Holy One of Isra’el.
8He will pay no heed to the altars
made with his own hands,
he will not turn toward what his fingers made,
the sacred poles and standing-stones for sun-worship.
9When that day comes, his strong cities,
which others abandoned when Isra’el advanced,
will be like abandoned woods and forests;
they will be laid waste.
10For you have forgotten the God who saved you,
failed to remember the Rock of your strength;
so you plant pagan-style gardens
and set out vine-cuttings for a foreign god.
11Though you make them grow on the day you plant them,
and in the morning your seedlings flower;
the crop will vanish the day disease comes,
a day of incurable pain.
12Oh, the terror-stricken uproar of many peoples,
roaring like the roar of the seas,
and the rushing about of nations,
rushing and surging like wild, wild waters!
13Yes, the nations will roar like the mighty ocean,
but he will rebuke them, and far will they flee,
driven like chaff by a mountain wind,
like whirling dust in advance of the storm.
14As evening falls, you can see terror;
before sunrise, they have ceased to be.
This is the lot of those who plunder us,
the fate of those who prey on us.
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