Isaiah 17:1-14 NIV
A Prophecy Against Damascus
1A prophecy against Damascus:
“See,
Damascus will no longer be a city
but
will become a heap of ruins.
2The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and
left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no
one to make them afraid.
3The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and
royal power from Damascus;
the
remnant of Aram will be
like
the glory of the Israelites,”
Declares The LORD ALMIGHTY.
4“In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat
of his body will waste away.
5It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering
the grain in their arms—
as when
someone gleans heads of grain
in the
Valley of Rephaim.
6Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when
an olive tree is beaten,
leaving
two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or
five on the fruitful boughs,”
Declares The LORD, The GOD of
Israel.
and turn their eyes to The HOLY ONE of Israel.
8They will not look to the altars,
the
work of their hands,
and
they will have no regard for the Asherah poles
and the
incense altars their fingers have made.
9In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the
Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all
will be desolation.
you have not remembered The ROCK, your FORTRESS.
Therefore,
though you set out the finest plants
and
plant imported vines,
11though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on
the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the
harvest will be as nothing
in the
day of disease and incurable pain.
12Woe to the many nations that rage—
they
rage like the raging sea!
Woe to
the peoples who roar—
they
roar like the roaring of great waters!
13Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
When HE Rebukes them they flee far away,
driven
before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like
tumbleweed before a gale.
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot
us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
This chapter contains
a prophecy of the ruin of Syria and Israel, the ten tribes; who were in
alliance; and also of the overthrow of the Assyrian army, that should come
against Judah.
The destruction of Damascus, the metropolis of Syria, and of
other cities, is threatened, Isaiah
17:1 of the whole kingdom of Syria, together with
Ephraim or the ten tribes, and Samaria the head of them, Isaiah 17:3 whose
destruction is expressed by various similes, as by thinness and leanness, and
by the reaping and gathering of corn, Isaiah 17:4 and
yet a remnant should be preserved, compared to gleaning gapes, and a few berries
on an olive tree, who should look to The Lord, and not to idols, Isaiah 17:6 and
the reason of the desolation of their cities, and of their fields and vineyards,
was their forgetfulness of The Lord, Isaiah 17:9 and
the chapter is closed with a prophecy of the defeat of the Assyrian army, who
are compared for their multitude and noise to the seas, and to mighty waters,
and the noise and rushing of them, Isaiah 17:12 and
yet should be, at the rebuke of GOD, as chaff, or any small light thing, before
a blustering wind, Isaiah
17:13 and who, in the evening, would be a
trouble to the Jews, and be dead before morning; which was to be the portion of
the spoilers and plunderers of The Lord's people, Isaiah 17:14.
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