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Isaiah 17 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Prophecy about Damascus

Isa 17:1

Isa 17:1The [fn]oracle concerning Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city
And will become a fallen ruin.

Isa 17:2

Isa 17:2“The cities [fn]of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks [fn]to lie down in,
And there will be no one to frighten them.

Isa 17:3

Isa 17:3“The [fn]fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And [fn]sovereignty from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,”
Declares the LORD of hosts.

Isa 17:4

Isa 17:4Now in that day the glory of Jacob will [fn]fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

Isa 17:5

Isa 17:5It will be even like the [fn]reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears,
Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the valley of Rephaim.

Isa 17:6

Isa 17:6Yet gleanings will be left in it like the [fn]shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost bough,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

Isa 17:7

Isa 17:7In that day man will have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 17:8

Isa 17:8He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
Even the [fn]Asherim and [fn]incense stands.

Isa 17:9

Isa 17:9In that day [fn]their strong cities will be like [fn]forsaken places in the forest,
Or like [fn]branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And [fn]the land will be a desolation.

Isa 17:10

Isa 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Isa 17:11

Isa 17:11In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Isa 17:12

Isa 17:12Alas, the uproar of many peoples
Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!

Isa 17:13

Isa 17:13The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.

Isa 17:14

Isa 17:14At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning they are no more.
[fn]Such will be the portion of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Or, burden of
Gr reads forever and ever
Literally: and they will lie down
Or, fortification
Or, royal power, kingdom
Literally: become thin
Literally: gathering of the harvest, the standing grain
Literally: striking
I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
Or, sun pillars
I.e. man's
Gr reads the deserted places of the Amorites and the Hivites which they abandoned
Or, the treetop
Literally: it
Literally: This
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