Yesha 'yahu (Isa) 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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Isaiah 17

God will Punish Syria and Israel

1 # Jer 49.23–27; Amos 1.3–5; Zech 9.1 The LORD said, “Damascus will not be a city any longer; it will be only a pile of ruins. 2The cities of Syria will be deserted for ever.#17.2 One ancient translation The cities… for ever; Hebrew The cities of Aroer are deserted. They will be a pasture for sheep and cattle, and no one will drive them away. 3Israel will be defenceless, and Damascus will lose its independence. Those Syrians who survive will be in disgrace like the people of Israel. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken.”

4The LORD said, “A day is coming when Israel's greatness will come to an end, and its wealth will be replaced by poverty. 5Israel will be like a field where the corn has been cut and harvested, as desolate as a field in the valley of Rephaim when it has been picked bare. 6Only a few people will survive, and Israel will be like an olive tree from which all the olives have been picked except two or three at the very top, or a few that are left on the lower branches. I, the LORD God of Israel, have spoken.”

7When that day comes, people will turn for help to their Creator, the holy God of Israel. 8They will no longer rely on the altars they made with their own hands, or trust in their own handiwork — symbols of the goddess Asherah and altars for burning incense.

9When that day comes, well-defended cities will be deserted and left in ruins like the cities that the Hivites and the Amorites#17.9 One ancient translation the Hivites and the Amorites; Hebrew woodland and hill country. abandoned as they fled from the people of Israel.

10Israel, you have forgotten the God who rescues you and who protects you like a mighty rock. Instead, you plant sacred gardens#17.10 sacred gardens: See 1.29. in order to worship a foreign god. 11But even if they sprouted and blossomed the very morning you planted them, there would still be no harvest. There would be only trouble and incurable pain.

Enemy Nations are Defeated

12Powerful nations are in commotion with a sound like the roar of the sea, like the crashing of huge waves. 13The nations advance like rushing waves, but God reprimands them and they retreat, driven away like dust on a hillside, like straw in a whirlwind. 14In the evening they cause terror, but by morning they are gone. That is the fate of everyone who plunders our land.

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