Prophecy about Damascus
17 The (A)pronouncement concerning (B)Damascus:
“Behold, Damascus is about to be (C)removed from being a city
And will become a (D)fallen ruin.
2 The cities of (E)Aroer are abandoned;
They will be for (F)herds to lie down in,
And there will be (G)no one to frighten them.
3 The (H)fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And sovereignty from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the (I)glory of the sons of Israel,”
Declares the Lord of armies.
4 Now on that day the (J)glory of Jacob will fade,
And (K)the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 It will be (L)like the reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears,
Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the (M)Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet (N)gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost branch,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 On that day man will (O)look to his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he will not look to the (P)altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his (Q)fingers have made,
Even the (R)Asherim and incense altars.
9 On that day their strong cities will be like abandoned places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.
10 For (S)you have forgotten the (T)God of your salvation
And have not remembered the (U)rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.
11 On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the (V)morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will (W)flee
On a day of illness and incurable pain.
12 Oh, the uproar of many peoples
(X)Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the (Y)rumbling of mighty waters!
13 The (Z)nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will (AA)rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
And be chased (AB)like chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
14 At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning (AC)they are gone.
This will be the fate of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:2
- Isaiah 17:2
- Isaiah 17:3
- Isaiah 17:3
- Isaiah 17:4
- Isaiah 17:5
- Isaiah 17:6
- Isaiah 17:8
- Isaiah 17:9
- Isaiah 17:9
- Isaiah 17:9
- Isaiah 17:14
Cross references
- Isaiah 17:1 : Is 13:1
- Isaiah 17:1 : Gen 14:15; 15:2; 2 Kin 16:9; Jer 49:23; Amos 1:3-5; Zech 9:1; Acts 9:2
- Isaiah 17:1 : Is 7:16; 8:4; 10:9
- Isaiah 17:1 : Is 25:2; Jer 49:2; Mic 1:6
- Isaiah 17:2 : Num 32:34
- Isaiah 17:2 : Is 7:21, 22; Ezek 25:5; Zeph 2:6
- Isaiah 17:2 : Mic 4:4
- Isaiah 17:3 : Is 7:8, 16; 8:4
- Isaiah 17:3 : Is 17:4; Hos 9:11
- Isaiah 17:4 : Is 10:3
- Isaiah 17:4 : Is 10:16
- Isaiah 17:5 : Is 17:11; Jer 51:33; Joel 3:13; Matt 13:30
- Isaiah 17:5 : 2 Sam 5:18, 22
- Isaiah 17:6 : Deut 4:27; Is 24:13; 27:12; Obad 5
- Isaiah 17:7 : Is 10:20; Hos 3:5; 6:1; Mic 7:7
- Isaiah 17:8 : 2 Chr 34:7; Is 27:9
- Isaiah 17:8 : Is 2:8, 20; 30:22; 31:7
- Isaiah 17:8 : Ex 34:13; Deut 7:5; Mic 5:14
- Isaiah 17:10 : Is 51:13
- Isaiah 17:10 : Ps 68:19; Is 12:2; 33:2; 61:10; 62:11
- Isaiah 17:10 : Deut 32:4, 18, 31; Is 26:4; 30:29; 44:8
- Isaiah 17:11 : Ps 90:6
- Isaiah 17:11 : Job 4:8; Hos 8:7; 10:13
- Isaiah 17:12 : Is 5:30; Jer 6:23; Ezek 43:2; Luke 21:25
- Isaiah 17:12 : Ps 18:4
- Isaiah 17:13 : Is 33:3
- Isaiah 17:13 : Ps 9:5; Is 41:11
- Isaiah 17:13 : Job 21:18; Ps 1:4; 83:13; Is 29:5; 41:15, 16
- Isaiah 17:14 : 2 Kin 19:35; Is 41:12
