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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 17 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Isaiah 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/16.htm" title="Isaiah 16">◄</a> Isaiah 17 <a href="../isaiah/18.htm" title="Isaiah 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">God Will Punish Syria and Israel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.1" class="v23_17_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “Damascus will not be a city any longer; it will be only a pile of ruins. </span><span class="v23_17_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.2" class="v23_17_2">2</span>The cities of Syria will be deserted forever.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> They will be a pasture for sheep and cattle, and no one will drive them away. </span><span class="v23_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.3" class="v23_17_3">3</span>Israel will be defenseless, and Damascus will lose its independence. Those Syrians who survive will be in disgrace like the people of Israel. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty, have spoken.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.4" class="v23_17_4">4</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “A day is coming when Israel's greatness will come to an end, and its wealth will be replaced by poverty. </span><span class="v23_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.5" class="v23_17_5">5</span>Israel will be like a field where the grain has been cut and harvested, as desolate as a field in Rephaim Valley when it has been picked bare. </span><span class="v23_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.6" class="v23_17_6">6</span>Only a few people will survive, and Israel will be like an olive tree from which all the olives have been picked except two or three at the very top, or a few that are left on the lower branches. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God of Israel, have spoken.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.7" class="v23_17_7">7</span>When that day comes, people will turn for help to their Creator, the holy God of Israel. </span><span class="v23_17_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.8" class="v23_17_8">8</span>They will no longer rely on the altars they made with their own hands, or trust in their own handiwork—symbols of the goddess Asherah and altars for burning incense.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.9" class="v23_17_9">9</span>When that day comes, well-defended cities will be deserted and left in ruins like the cities that the Hivites and the Amorites<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> abandoned as they fled from the people of Israel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.10" class="v23_17_10">10</span>Israel, you have forgotten the God who rescues you and protects you like a mighty rock. Instead, you plant sacred gardens<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> in order to worship a foreign god. </span><span class="v23_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.11" class="v23_17_11">11</span>But even if they sprouted and blossomed the very morning you planted them, there would still be no harvest. There would be only trouble and incurable pain.</span></p><h3 class="s">Enemy Nations Are Defeated</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.12" class="v23_17_12">12</span>Powerful nations are in commotion with a sound like the roar of the sea, like the crashing of huge waves. </span><span class="v23_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.13" class="v23_17_13">13</span>The nations advance like rushing waves, but God reprimands them and they retreat, driven away like dust on a mountainside, like straw in a whirlwind. </span><span class="v23_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.14" class="v23_17_14">14</span>At evening they cause terror, but by morning they are gone. That is the fate of everyone who plunders our land.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.2: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The cities … forever; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The cities of Aroer are deserted.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.9: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the Hivites and the Amorites; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">woodland and hill country.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.10: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">sacred gardens: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 1.29.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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