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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/17-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Burden against Damascus<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>abandoned for ever, to <i>be</i> a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for thou art no better than the children of Israel, <i>even</i> than their glory; thus saith the Lord of hosts.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and <i>as if</i> there should be left stubble therein, or <i>as it were</i> the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or <i>as if</i> four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted <i>theirs</i>, because the of children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper; therefore shalt thou plant a false plant, and a false seed.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In the day wherein thou shalt plant thou shalt be deceived; but if thou sow in the morning, <i>the seed</i> shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein thou shalt obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, thou shalt obtain an inheritance for thy sons.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Woe <i>to</i> the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water;<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>