Isaiah 17 — Legacy Standard Bible

An Oracle Concerning Damascus

17The ¹^,^aoracle concerning ^bDamascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be ^cremoved from being a cityAnd will become a ^dfallen ruin.

²“The cities ¹of ^aAroer are forsaken;They will be for ^bflocks, and they will lie down in them;And there will be ^cno one to cause them to tremble.³“And the ¹^,^afortified city will cease from Ephraim,And ²sovereignty from DamascusAnd the remnant of Aram;They will be like the ^bglory of the sons of Israel,”Declares Yahweh of hosts.⁴Now it will be in that day, that the ^aglory of Jacob will ¹wane,And ^bthe fatness of his flesh will become lean.⁵And it will be ^aeven like the ¹reaper gathering the standing grain,As his arm harvests the ears of grain,Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grainIn the ^bvalley of Rephaim.⁶Yet ^agleanings will remain in it like the ¹shaking of an olive tree,Two or three olives on the topmost branch,Four or five on the twigs of a fruitful tree,Declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.⁷In that day man will ^ahave regard for his MakerAnd his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.⁸He will not have regard for the ^aaltars, the work of his hands,Nor will he look to that which his ^bfingers have made,Even the ¹^,^cAsherim and ²incense stands.⁹In that day ¹their strong cities will be like ²forsaken places in the forest,Or like ³branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;And ⁴the land will be a desolation.¹⁰For ^ayou have forgotten the ^bGod of your salvationAnd have not remembered the ^crock of your strong defense.Therefore you plant delightful plantsAnd set them with vine branches of a strange god.¹¹In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,And in the ^amorning you cause your seed to flourish;But the harvest will ^bbe a heapIn a day of sickliness and incurable pain.¹²Alas, the uproar of many peoples^aWho roar like the roaring of the seas,And the rumbling of nationsWho rumble on like the ^brumbling of mighty waters!¹³The ^anations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,But He will ^brebuke them, and they will flee far away,And be pursued ^clike chaff in the mountains before the wind,Or like whirling dust before a whirlwind.¹⁴At evening time, behold, there is terror!Before morning ^athey are no more.¹Such will be the portion of those who pillage usAnd the lot of those who plunder us.