Isaiah 17
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Isaiah 17
An Oracle concerning Damascus
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2 Kings 16.9; Isa 8.4; 10.9; Jer 49.23; Am 1.3; Zech 9.1 An oracle concerning Damascus.
See, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2 #
Jer 7.33
Her towns will be deserted forever;#17.2 Cn Compare Gk: Heb the cities of Aroer are deserted
they will be places for flocks,
which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid.
3 #
Isa 7.16; 8.4 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim
and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the people of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.
4 #
Isa 10.3, 16 On that day
the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
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2 Sam 5.18, 22; Jer 51.33 And it shall be as when reapers gather standing grain
and their arms harvest the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 #
Isa 24.13; 27.12 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, says the Lord God of Israel.
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Isa 10.20; Mic 7.7 On that day people will look to their Maker, with their eyes on the Holy One of Israel; 8#Ex 34.13; Deut 7.5; Isa 27.9; 30.22; 31.7they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles#17.8 Heb Asherahs or the altars of incense.
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Isa 7.25
On that day their fortified cities will be like the deserted places of the Hivites and the Amorites,#17.9 Cn Compare Gk: Heb places of the wood and the highest bough which they deserted because of the people of Israel, and there will be desolation.
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Ps 68.19; Isa 26.4; 30.29; 51.13 For you have forgotten God your Savior
and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant gardens
and set out branches of a foreign god,
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Job 4.8; Ps 90.6 though you make them grow on the day that you plant them
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away
in a day of sickness and incurable pain.
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Ps 18.4; Jer 6.23; Ezek 43.2 Woe, the thunder of many peoples,
they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
The roar of nations,
they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
13 #
Ps 9.5; Isa 13.14; 29.5; 33.3; 41.15, 16 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]]#17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When…waters
he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and like whirling dust before the storm.
14 #
2 Kings 19.35; Isa 41.12 At evening time, sudden terror!
Before morning, they are no more.
This is the fate of those who despoil us
and the lot of those who plunder us.
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New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, copyright © 2021 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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.