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  Isaiah

17

Isaiah 17

Disaster overtakes the people of Ephraim and their allies for forgetting Jehovah and loving idols.

1 An oracle concerning Damascus:
Damascus shall cease to be a cityand become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer shall lie forsakenand become places for herds to recline,where no one will disturb them. 3 When Ephraim’s defense comes to an end,so shall the sovereignty of Damascus:as with the glory of the children of Israel,so shall it be with Aram’s remnant,says Jehovah of Hosts.
4 In that day Jacob’s glory shall wane,and his fatness of body become leanness. 5 After being like a harvest of ripe grain,whose ears are reaped by the armful,he will become like ears pluckedin the Valley of Rephaim 6 when only the gleanings are left,
or when an olive tree is beaten,having two or three berries in the topmost bough,or four or five in its most fruitful branch,says Jehovah, the God of Israel.
7 In that day men will have regard to their Maker,and their eyes look to the Holy One of Israel, 8 and regard not the altars,the works of their hands,nor look to things their fingers have made—the idols of prosperity and the shining images.
9 In that day their mighty cities shall be like the deserted towns of the aHivites and Amorites,a which they abandoned before the Israelites during the desolation.
10 For you have forgotten your God, your salvation,and not remembered the Rock, your fortress.Therefore, though you plant choice cropsand sow hybrid seed, 11 and though you make them thrivethe day you plant them,causing them to sproutthe very morning you sow them,yet shall the harvest vanishin a day of diseases and incurable pain.
12 Woe to the many peoples in an uproar,who rage like the raging of the seas—tumultuous nations, in commotionlike the turbulence of mighty waters! 13 Nations may roar like the roaring of great waters,but when he rebukes them they will flee far away;they will be driven before the windlike chaff on the mountains,or as whirling dust in a storm. 14 At evening time shall be the catastrophe,and before morning they shall be no more.This is the lot of those who plunder us,the fate of those who despoil us.

  • a9 So LXX; MT groves and treetops.


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