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Major Prophets

Isaiah 17

The Burden against Damascus

1This is the burden against Damascus:

“Behold, Damascus is no longer a city;

it has become a heap of ruins.

1The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is being turned aside as a city, and it has become a heap of ruins.

2The cities of Aroer are forsaken;

they will be left to the flocks,

which will lie down with no one to fear.

2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be for flocks to lie down, and no one will frighten them.

3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim,

and the sovereignty from Damascus.

The remnant of Aram will be

like the splendor of the Israelites,”

declares the LORD of Hosts.

3The fortress will cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will become like the glory of the sons of Israel,” a declaration of YHWH of hosts.

4“In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade,

and the fat of his body will waste away,

4“And it will come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob will hang low, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean;

5as the reaper gathers the standing grain

and harvests the ears with his arm,

as one gleans heads of grain

in the Valley of Rephaim.

5and it will be as the gathering of the harvester of the standing grain, when his arm harvests the ears; and it will be as the gathering of the ears in the Valley of Rephaim;

6Yet gleanings will remain,

like an olive tree that has been beaten—

two or three berries atop the tree,

four or five on its fruitful branches,”

declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

6and there will be left over in it gleanings, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries at the top of the bough, four or five bearing fruit in its branches.” A declaration of YHWH God of Israel.

7In that day men will look to their Maker

and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

7In that day man will gaze upon his Maker, and his eyes will look unto the Holy One of Israel.

8They will not look to the altars

they have fashioned with their hands

or to the Asherahs and incense altars

they have made with their fingers.

8And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and that which his fingers have made he will not see—the Asherahs and incense altars.

9In that day their strong cities

will be like forsaken thickets and summits,

abandoned to the Israelites

and to utter desolation.

9In that day the cities of his strength will be like the abandoned forest and summit that they abandoned before the faces of the sons of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation

and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge.

Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots

and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and the Rock of your refuge you have not remembered. Upon thus you may plant plants of pleasantness, and you may sow vines of a stranger,

11though on the day you plant

you make them grow,

and on that morning

you help your seed sprout—

yet the harvest will vanish

on the day of disease and incurable pain.

11on the day you plant you make it grow, and in the morning of your sowing, you make it sprout; the harvest will flee on the day of the coming of sickness and pain that cannot be cured.

12Alas, the tumult of many peoples;

they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations;

they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.

12Woe to the multitude of many peoples—like the roaring of seas they roar! And the rumble of nations—like the rumbling of mighty waters they are crashing!

13The nations rage like the rush of many waters.

He rebukes them, and they flee far away,

driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,

like tumbleweeds before a gale.

13The peoples—like the rumbling of many waters they are crashing, and He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, and they will be chased like chaff on the mountains before the face of the wind, and like a wheel of dust before the face of the whirlwind.

14In the evening, there is sudden terror!

Before morning, they are no more!

This is the portion of those who loot us

and the lot of those who plunder us.

14And at the time of evening, behold the terror; before the morning he is no more! This is the portion of those plundering us and the lot of those preying on us.