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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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Damascus Will Be Punished</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> This is a message about Damascus:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_1">Damascus is doomed!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_1">It will end up in ruins.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.2" class="v23_17_2">2</span>The villages around Aroer<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_2">will be deserted,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_2">with only sheep living there</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_2">and no one to bother them.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.3" class="v23_17_3">3</span>Israel<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will lose its fortresses.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_3">The kingdom of Damascus</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_3">will be destroyed;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_3">its survivors will suffer</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_3">the same fate as Israel.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_3">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> All-Powerful</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_3">has promised this.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Sin and Suffering</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.4" class="v23_17_4">4</span>When that time comes,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_4">the glorious nation of Israel</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_4">will be brought down;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_4">its prosperous people</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_4">will be skin and bones.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.5" class="v23_17_5">5</span>Israel will be like wheat fields</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_5">in Rephaim Valley</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_5">picked clean of grain.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.6" class="v23_17_6">6</span>It will be like an olive tree</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_6">beaten with a stick,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_6">leaving two or three olives</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_6">or maybe four or five</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_6">on the highest</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_6">or most fruitful branches.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_6">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> God of Israel</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_6">has promised this.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.7" class="v23_17_7">7</span>At that time the people will turn and trust 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 have built altars and places for burning incense to their goddess Asherah, and they have set up sacred poles<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> for her. But they will stop worshiping at these places.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_17_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.9" class="v23_17_9">9</span>Israel captured powerful cities and chased out the people who lived there. But these cities will lie in ruins, covered over with weeds and underbrush.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.10" class="v23_17_10">10</span>Israel, you have forgotten</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_10">the God who saves you,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_10">the one who is the mighty rock<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.17.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_10">where you find protection.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_10">You plant the finest flowers</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_10">to honor a foreign god.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.11" class="v23_17_11">11</span>The plants may sprout</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_11">and blossom</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_11">that very same morning,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_11">but it will do you no good,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_11">because you will suffer</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_11">endless agony.</span></p><h3 class="s1">God Defends His People</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.12" class="v23_17_12">12</span>The nations are a noisy,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_12">thunderous sea.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.13" class="v23_17_13">13</span>But even if they roar</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_13">like a fearsome flood,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_13">God will give the command</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_13">to turn them back.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_13">They will be like dust,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_13">or like a tumbleweed</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_13">blowing across the hills</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_13">in a windstorm.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.17.14" class="v23_17_14">14</span>In the evening</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_14">their attack is fierce,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_14">but by morning</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_14">they are destroyed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_17_14">This is what happens to those</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_17_14">who raid and rob us.</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="fq" closed="false">Aroer: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Either a city near Damascus with the same name as the Moabite city or the Moabite city itself, here used as an example of what will happen to Damascus.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Israel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Ephraim,” another name for the northern kingdom.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacred poles: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “trees,” used as symbols of Asherah, the goddess of fertility.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.9 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">covered … underbrush: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew; one ancient translation “like the cities of the Hivites and the Amorites.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">mighty rock: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “rock,” which is sometimes used in poetry to compare the Lord to a mountain where his people can run for protection from their enemies.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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