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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">An Oracle Concerning Damascus</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>An oracle concerning Damascus.</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city</span><br /><span class="indent">and will become a heap of ruins.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The cities of Aroer are deserted;</span><br /><span class="indent">they will be for flocks,</span><br /><span class="indent">which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The fortress will disappear from Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the kingdom from Damascus;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and the remnant of Syria will be</span><br /><span class="indent">like the glory of the children of Israel,</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain</span><br /><span class="indent">and his arm harvests the ears,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and as when one gleans the ears of grain</span><br /><span class="indent">in the Valley of Rephaim.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Gleanings will be left in it,</span><br /><span class="indent">as when an olive tree is beaten—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">two or three berries</span><br /><span class="indent">in the top of the highest bough,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">four or five</span><br /><span class="indent">on the branches of a fruit tree,</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you have forgotten the God of your salvation</span><br /><span class="indent">and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">therefore, though you plant pleasant plants</span><br /><span class="indent">and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">though you make them grow<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or though you carefully fence them">a</a></sup></span> on the day that you plant them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">yet the harvest will flee away<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or will be a heap">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">in a day of grief and incurable pain.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Ah, the thunder of many peoples;</span><br /><span class="indent">they thunder like the thundering of the sea!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Ah, the roar of nations;</span><br /><span class="indent">they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,</span><br /><span class="indent">but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind</span><br /><span class="indent">and whirling dust before the storm.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">At evening time, behold, terror!</span><br /><span class="indent">Before morning, they are no more!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">This is the portion of those who loot us,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the lot of those who plunder us.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">though you</span> carefully fence them</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">will</span> be a heap</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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