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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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/isaiah/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">A Prophecy Against Damascus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A prophecy against Damascus:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“See, Damascus will no longer be a city</p><p class="line2">but will become a heap of ruins.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The cities of Aroer will be deserted</p><p class="line2">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</p><p class="line2">with no one to make them afraid.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</p><p class="line2">and royal power from Damascus;</p><p class="line1">the remnant of Aram will be</p><p class="line2">like the glory of the Israelites,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;</p><p class="line2">the fat of his body will waste away.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,</p><p class="line2">gathering the grain in their arms—</p><p class="line1">as when someone gleans heads of grain</p><p class="line2">in the Valley of Rephaim.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Yet some gleanings will remain,</p><p class="line2">as when an olive tree is beaten,</p><p class="line1">leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,</p><p class="line2">four or five on the fruitful boughs,”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In that day people will look to their Maker</p><p class="line2">and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will not look to the altars,</p><p class="line2">the work of their hands,</p><p class="line1">and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah">a</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line2">and the incense altars their fingers have made.</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.</p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You have forgotten God your Savior;</p><p class="line2">you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.</p><p class="line1">Therefore, though you set out the finest plants</p><p class="line2">and plant imported vines,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,</p><p class="line2">and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,</p><p class="line1">yet the harvest will be as nothing</p><p class="line2">in the day of disease and incurable pain.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Woe to the many nations that rage—</p><p class="line2">they rage like the raging sea!</p><p class="line1">Woe to the peoples who roar—</p><p class="line2">they roar like the roaring of great waters!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,</p><p class="line2">when he rebukes them they flee far away,</p><p class="line1">driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,</p><p class="line2">like tumbleweed before a gale.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In the evening, sudden terror!</p><p class="line2">Before the morning, they are gone!</p><p class="line1">This is the portion of those who loot us,</p><p class="line2">the lot of those who plunder us.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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