Isaiah 17



1.  The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away * from being a city,and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2.  The cities of Aroer are forsaken * : they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down * , and none shall make them afraid * .

3.  The fortress also shall cease * from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith * the LORD of hosts.

4.  And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin * , and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean * .

5.  And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth * the corn, and reapeth * the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth * ears in the valley of Rephaim.

6.  Yet gleaning grapes shall be left * in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful * branches thereof, saith * the LORD God of Israel.

7.  At that day shall a man look * to his Maker * , and his eyes shall have respect * to the Holy One of Israel.

8.  And he shall not look * to the altars,the work of his hands, neither shall respect * that which his fingers have made * , either the groves, or the images.

9.  In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken * bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left * because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

10.  Because thou hast forgotten * the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful * of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant * pleasant plants, and shalt set * it with strange * slips:

11.  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow * , and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish * : but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief * and of desperate * sorrow.

12.  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise * like the noise * of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing * of mighty waters !

13.  The nations shall rush * like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke * them, and they shall flee * far off, and shall be chased * as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14.  And behold at eveningtide trouble;and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil * us, and the lot of them that rob * us.