Jesaja 17
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The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and
it shall be a ruined heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are
forsaken; now they are for flocks; they lie down and no one terrifies them. 3 And
the fortress shall cease from Ephraim; and the kingdom from Damascus and the
rest of Syria. They shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, declares
Jehovah of Hosts. 4 And it shall be in that day, Jacob's glory shall be made
thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall be made lean. 5 And it shall be as the
reaping of the harvest grain, and his arm reaps the ears. And it shall be as he
who gathers ears in the Valley of the Giants. 6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be
left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree; two or three ripe olives in the
top of the uppermost branch; four or five in the fruit tree branches, declares
Jehovah God of Israel. 7 In that day a man shall gaze to his Maker; and his
eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not gaze to the
altars, the work of his hands; and he will not see what his fingers have made,
even the Asherahs, and the sun pillars. 9 In that day
his fortified cities shall be as a thing left in the forest, or the branch that
they leave, from before the sons of Israel. And it will become a desolation. 10
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you did not remember
the Rock of your strength. On account of this you shall plant pleasing plants,
and shall sow it a foreign shoot. 11 In the day of your planting you fence it
in; in the morning you make your seed sprout; the harvest is a heap in the day
of sickness and incurable pain. 12 Woe to the multitude of many peoples; they
roar like the roar of seas; and the crash of nations, they crash like the crash
of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall crash like the crashing of many waters,
but He rebukes it, and it flees far away; yea, it is driven like the chaff of
mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before a tempest. 14 At the
time of evening, behold, terror! Before it is morning, it shall not be. This is
the portion of those robbing us, and the lot of those plundering us.