Isaiah 17
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1THE ORACLE CONCERNING DAMASCUS.
Behold, Damascus is removed from being a city;
And it shall become a ruinous heap.
2The cities of Aroer are forsaken:
They shall be for flocks,
And they shall lie down, and none shall scare them away.
3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim,
And the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria:
They shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,
Saith Jehovah of hosts.
4And in that day it shall come to pass,
That the glory of Jacob shall be diminished,
And the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5And it shall be as when a reaper gathereth the standing corn,
And his arm reapeth the ears of corn;
Or as when one gleaneth the ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6A gleaning only shall be left in it, as in the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three berries on the top of the uppermost bough;
Four or five on the fruitful branches thereof:
Saith Jehovah the God of Israel.
7In that day shall a man regard his Maker,
And toward the Holy One of Israel shall his eyes look:
8And he shall not regard the altars, the work of his hands;
And what his fingers have made he shall not respect;
Neither the idols, nor the images.
9In that day shall his strongly fenced cities become
Like the abandoned remains of a forest, and the topmost branches,
Which they left from before the children of Israel;
And there shall be utter desolation.
10Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
And hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength;
Therefore thou shaft plant pleasant plants,
And engraft them with foreign shoots.
11In the day shalt thou make thy plants to grow,
And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish;
But the harvest, in the day of possession, flieth away;
And painful is the disaster.
12Ah! the noise of many people;
They make a noise like the noise of the seas:
And ah! the rushing of nations;
They make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters.
13 Ah! the rushing of nations; like the rushing of mighty waters do they rush:
But He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away;
And they shall be driven, like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
And like the rolling dust before the whirlwind,
14At eveningtide, behold terror!
Before the morning he is no more!
This is the portion of those who spoil us;
And the lot of those who plunder us.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.
Isaiah 17
17
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
1An #See ch. 13:1 oracle concerning #ch. 7:8; Zech. 9:1; See Jer. 49:23-27; Amos 1:3-5Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2The cities of #Deut. 2:36; Josh. 13:25 Aroer are deserted;
they will be for flocks,
which will lie down, and #Mic. 4:4none will make them afraid.
3The fortress will disappear from #ch. 7:16; 8:4 Ephraim,
and the kingdom from #ch. 7:16; 8:4 Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like #[1 Sam. 4:21]the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.
4And in that day #[See ver. 3 above] the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and #ch. 10:16the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
5And it shall be #[ch. 24:1] as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in #See 2 Sam. 5:18the Valley of Rephaim.
6 # ch. 24:13 Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.
7 # [Hos. 8:14] In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. 8#ch. 27:9; Mic. 5:13, 14 He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the #Ex. 34:13; See Deut. 16:21Asherim or the altars of incense.
9 # [ch. 27:10] In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
10For #Ps. 106:21 you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the #ch. 26:4; [Deut. 32:4, 18, 31]Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
11though you make them grow#17:11 Or though you carefully fence them on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away#17:11 Or will be a heap
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
12Ah, #See ch. 22:5-7the thunder of many peoples;
they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
Ah, the roar of nations;
they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
13 # [ch. 33:3] The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
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Ps. 9:5; [Joel 3:2] but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased #See Ps. 1:4 like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and #Ps. 83:13whirling dust before the storm.
14 # [Ps. 30:5] At evening time, behold, terror!
Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
and the lot of those who plunder us.
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