Isaiah 17

Revised Geneva Translation

17 The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, for it shall be a ruinous heap.

² “The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken. They shall be for the flocks. For they shall lie there, and no one shall make them afraid.

³ “The fortification also shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus. And the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Hosts.

⁴ “And on that day the glory of Jacob shall be made clean.

⁵ “And it shall be as when the harvester gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm. And he shall be as him who gathers the ears in the Valley of Rephaim.

⁶ “Still, a gathering of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the upmost boughs, four or five in the high branches of its fruit,” says the LORD God of Israel.

⁷ At that day, a man shall look to his Maker. And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.

⁸ And he shall not look to the altars, the works of his own hands. Nor shall he look to those things which his own fingers have made, as groves and images.

⁹ On that day shall the cities of their strength be as forsaken boughs and branches, which were forsaken because of the children of Israel. And there shall be desolation.

¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the God of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall graft strange vine branches.

¹¹ In the day, you shall make your plant grow. And in the morning, you shall make your seed flourish. But the harvest shall be gone on the day of sickness, with desperate sorrow.

¹² Ah, the multitude of many people! They shall make a sound like the noise of the sea. For the noise of the people shall make a sound like the noise of mighty waters.

¹³ The people shall make a sound like the noise of many waters. But God shall rebuke them. And they shall flee far away and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

¹⁴ And lo, in the evening, there is trouble. But before morning, it is gone. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.