Isaiah 17 NKJV

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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/17.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Proclamation Against Syria and Israel</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-17-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The burden<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span> against Damascus.</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-17-1">“Behold, Damascus will cease from <i>being</i> a city,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-1">And it will be a ruinous heap.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>The cities of Aroer <i>are</i> forsaken;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-2">They will be for flocks</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-2">Which lie down, and no one will make <i>them</i> afraid.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-3">The kingdom from Damascus,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-3">And the remnant of Syria;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-3">They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-3">Says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“In that day it shall come to pass</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-4"><i>That</i> the glory of Jacob will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>wane,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-4">And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-5">And reaps the heads with his arm;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-5">It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-5">In the Valley of Rephaim.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-6">Like the shaking of an olive tree,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-6">Two <i>or</i> three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-6">Four <i>or</i> five in its most fruitful branches,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-6">Says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In that day a man will look to his Maker,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-7">And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He will not look to the altars,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-8">The work of his hands;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-8">He will not respect what his fingers have made,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-8">Nor the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>wooden images nor the incense altars.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>bough</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-9">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>an uppermost branch,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-9">Which they left because of the children of Israel;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-9">And there will be desolation.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-10">And have not been mindful of the Rock of your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>stronghold,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-10">Therefore you will plant pleasant plants</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-10">And set out foreign seedlings;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In the day you will make your plant to grow,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-11">And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-11"><i>But</i> the harvest <i>will be</i> a heap of ruins</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-11">In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Woe to the multitude of many people</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-12"><i>Who</i> make a noise like the roar of the seas,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-12">And to the rushing of nations</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-12"><i>That</i> make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-13">But <i>God</i> will rebuke them and they will flee far away,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-13">And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-13">Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then behold, at eventide, trouble!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-14"><i>And</i> before the morning, he <i>is</i> no more.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-14">This <i>is</i> the portion of those who plunder us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-17-14">And the lot of those who rob us.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-17985a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 17:1">Isaiah 17:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>oracle, prophecy</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17986b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 17:2">Isaiah 17:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Vg.; LXX <i>It shall be forsaken forever;</i> Tg. <i>Its cities shall be forsaken and desolate</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17988c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 17:4">Isaiah 17:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>fade</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17992d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 17:8">Isaiah 17:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Asherim,</i> Canaanite deities</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17993e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 17:9">Isaiah 17:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX <i>Hivites;</i> Tg. <i>laid waste;</i> Vg. <i>as the plows</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17993f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 17:9">Isaiah 17:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX <i>Amorites;</i> Tg. <i>in ruins;</i> Vg. <i>corn</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17994g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 17:10">Isaiah 17:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>refuge</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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