E.
The judgment of Jehovah — to ruin and forsake Damascus because of its invasion into Israel
17:1—18:7
Isa. 17
:1
17:1
The burden concerning
aDamascus:
See, Damascus — turned from
being a city,
It will become a heap of ruin.
Isa. 17
:2
17:2
The cities of Aroer will be forsaken;
They will be for flocks
That lie down with no one to frighten them.
Isa. 17
:3
17:3
And fortified cities will cease to be in Ephraim,
As well as the kingdom in Damascus;
And the remnant of Syria
Will be like the glory of the children of Israel,
Declares Jehovah of hosts.
Isa. 17
:4
17:4
In that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fat of his flesh will become lean.
Isa. 17
:5
17:5
And it will be as when the reaper gathers the standing grain,
And his arms reap the ears;
And it will be as when one gleans the ears
In the valley of Rephaim.
Isa. 17
:6
17:6
Yet agleanings will be left in it,
Like at the shaking of an olive tree —
Two or three fruit at the very top,
Four or five in the boughs of the fruiting
tree —
Declares Jehovah the God of Israel.
Isa. 17
:7
17:7
In that day man will
alook to his
bMaker,
And his eyes will behold the Holy One of Israel.
Isa. 17
:8
17:8
And he will not look to the altars, the works of his hands;
And what his fingers have made he will not regard,
That is, the Asherahs and the images to the sun.
Isa. 17
:9
17:9
In that day his cities of protection will be
Like abandoned places of the forest and
like the mountaintop
Which was abandoned before the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.
Isa. 17
:10
17:10
For you have forgotten the
1aGod of your salvation,
And the Rock of your stronghold you have not remembered.
Therefore you plant plants of delight
And set them with plant cuttings to a strange
god.
Isa. 17
:11
17:11
On the day that you plant
them you fence
them in carefully,
And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest is a heap on a day of sickness
And incurable pain.
Isa. 17
:12
17:12
Woe! The roar of many peoples,
Who roar like the
aroaring of the seas;
The din of nations,
Who crash like the crashing of mighty
bwaters!
Isa. 17
:13
17:13
The nations crash like the crashing of many waters.
But He will rebuke them;
And they will flee far away,
And will be chased like mountain chaff before the wind
And like a whirlwind of dust before storm wind.
Isa. 17
:14
17:14
At evening time, indeed, there is calamity;
Before the morning they are no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us,
And the allotment of those who take us as spoil.
