Isaiah · Literal Standard Version
Isaiah 17 Literal Standard Version
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1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, || And it has been a heap—a ruin.
1 The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken, || They are for droves, and they have lain down, || And there is none troubling.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
3 And the fortress has ceased from Ephraim, || And the kingdom from Damascus, || And the remnant of Aram are as the glory of the sons of Israel, || A declaration of YHWH of Hosts!
3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
4 And it has come to pass in that day, || The glory of Jacob waxes poor, || And the fatness of his flesh waxes lean.
4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 And it has come to pass, || As the gathering of the standing grain by the reaper, || And his arm reaps the ears, || And it has come to pass, || As the gathering of the ears in the Valley of Rephaim,
5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 And gleanings have been left in him, || As the surrounding of an olive, || Two—three berries on the top of a branch, || Four—five on the fruitful boughs, || A declaration of YHWH, God of Israel!
6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.
7 In that day man looks to His Maker, || Indeed, his eyes look to the Holy One of Israel,
7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he does not look to the altars. The work of his own hands, || And that which his own fingers made, He does not see—the Asherim and the images.
8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars.
9 In that day the cities of his strength are || As the forsaken thing of the forest, || And the branch that they have left, || Because of the sons of Israel, || It has also been a desolation.
9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, || And have not remembered the Rock of your strength, || Therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, || And sow it with a strange shoot,
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
11 You cause your plant to become great in the day, || And make your seed to flourish in the morning, || The harvest [is] a heap in a day of overflowing, || And of mortal pain.
11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe [to] the multitude of many peoples, || They sound as the sounding of seas; And the roaring of nations, || As the roaring of mighty waters [that] make a crashing.
12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 Nations crash as the roaring of many waters, || And He rebuked them, || And they fled far off, || And were pursued as chaff of hills before wind, || And as a rolling thing before a windstorm.
13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
14 At evening, behold, terror, before morning it is not, || This [is] the portion of our spoilers, || And the lot of our plunderers!
14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Amos 1:3–5; Isaiah 25:2; Zechariah 9:1; Jeremiah 49:2; Jeremiah 49:23–27
- 2 Ezekiel 25:5; Deuteronomy 2:36; Zephaniah 2:6; Jeremiah 7:33; Numbers 32:34
- 3 Isaiah 7:16; Isaiah 8:4; Hosea 9:11; Isaiah 7:8; Micah 1:4–9
- 4 Isaiah 10:16; Deuteronomy 32:15–27; Ezekiel 34:20; Isaiah 9:8; Isaiah 24:13
- 5 Matthew 13:30; Jeremiah 51:33; Joel 3:13; 2 Samuel 5:18; Revelation 14:15–20
- 6 Isaiah 24:13; Deuteronomy 4:27; Obadiah 5; Romans 11:4–6; Romans 9:27
- 7 Micah 7:7; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 3:5; Hosea 14:1–3; Isaiah 29:24
- 8 Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 27:9; Isaiah 2:8; Micah 5:13–14; Hosea 10:1–2
- 9 Isaiah 27:10; Amos 3:11–15; Hosea 10:14; Isaiah 17:4–5; Hosea 13:15–16
- 10 Jeremiah 2:32; Isaiah 26:4; Psalm 106:21; Deuteronomy 32:18; Deuteronomy 32:4
- 11 Hosea 8:7; Job 4:8; Isaiah 65:13–14; Romans 2:5; Galatians 6:7–8
- 12 Luke 21:25; Jeremiah 6:23; Psalm 18:4; Revelation 17:15; Ezekiel 43:2
- 13 Psalm 9:5; Psalm 1:4; Isaiah 41:15–16; Job 21:18; Isaiah 29:5
- 14 2 Kings 19:35; Proverbs 22:23; Ezekiel 39:10; Isaiah 10:28–32; 2 Kings 19:3
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