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Isaiah 17 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 17
Proclamation Against Syria and Israel
Prophecy Against Damascus
1 The burden against Damascus.
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​​“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
​​And it will be a ruinous heap.
2 ​​The cities of Aroer are forsaken;[fn]
​​They will be for flocks
​​Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid.
3 ​​The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
​​The kingdom from Damascus,
​​And the remnant of Syria;
​​They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
​​Says the LORD of hosts.
​
4 ​​“In that day it shall come to pass
​​That the glory of Jacob will wane,
​​And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
5 ​​It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
​​And reaps the heads with his arm;
​​It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
​​In the Valley of Rephaim.
6 ​​Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
​​Like the shaking of an olive tree,
​​Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
​​Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
​​Says the LORD God of Israel.
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7 ​​In that day a man will look to his Maker,
​​And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8 ​​He will not look to the altars,
​​The work of his hands;
​​He will not respect what his fingers have made,
​​Nor the wooden images[fn] nor the incense altars.
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9 ​​In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough[fn]
​​And an uppermost branch,[fn]
​​Which they left because of the children of Israel;
​​And there will be desolation.
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10 ​​Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
​​And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold,
​​Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
​​And set out foreign seedlings;
11 ​​In the day you will make your plant to grow,
​​And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
​​But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
​​In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
​
12 ​​Woe to the multitude of many people
​​Who make a noise like the roar of the seas,
​​And to the rushing of nations
​​That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 ​​The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
​​But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
​​And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
​​Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 ​​Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
​​And before the morning, he is no more.
​​This is the portion of those who plunder us,
​​And the lot of those who rob us.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint reads It shall be forsaken forever; Targum reads Its cities shall be forsaken and desolate.
Hebrew Asherim, Canaanite deities
Septuagint reads Hivites; Targum reads laid waste; Vulgate reads as the plows.
Septuagint reads Amorites; Targum reads in ruins; Vulgate reads corn.
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