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Isaiah 17
New International Version

### A Prophecy Against Damascus

17 A prophecy(A) against Damascus:(B)

“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.(C)
2 The cities of Aroer(D) will be deserted
and left to flocks,(E) which will lie down,(F)
with no one to make them afraid.(G)
3 The fortified(H) city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory(I) of the Israelites,”(J)
declares the Lord Almighty.

4 “In that day(K) the glory(L) of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste(M) away.
5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering(N) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain(O)
in the Valley of Rephaim.(P)
6 Yet some gleanings will remain,(Q)
as when an olive tree is beaten,(R)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

7 In that day(S) people will look(T) to their Maker(U)
and turn their eyes to the Holy One(V) of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,(W)
the work of their hands,(X)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](Y)
and the incense altars their fingers(Z) have made.

9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(AA) And all will be desolation.

10 You have forgotten(AB) God your Savior;(AC)
you have not remembered the Rock,(AD) your fortress.(AE)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,(AF)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning(AG) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(AH) will be as nothing(AI)
in the day of disease and incurable(AJ) pain.(AK)

12 Woe to the many nations that rage(AL)—
they rage like the raging sea!(AM)
Woe to the peoples who roar(AN)—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!(AO)
13 Although the peoples roar(AP) like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes(AQ) them they flee(AR) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(AS) on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.(AT)
14 In the evening, sudden(AU) terror!(AV)
Before the morning, they are gone!(AW)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 17:1 : Isa 13:1
2. Isaiah 17:1 : S Ge 14:15; Ac 9:2
3. Isaiah 17:1 : S Dt 13:16; S Isa 25:2
4. Isaiah 17:2 : S 2Ki 10:33
5. Isaiah 17:2 : S Isa 5:17; 7:21; Eze 25:5
6. Isaiah 17:2 : Isa 27:10
7. Isaiah 17:2 : S Lev 26:6; Jer 7:33; Mic 4:4
8. Isaiah 17:3 : Isa 25:2, 12; Hos 10:14
9. Isaiah 17:3 : ver 4; Isa 21:16; Hos 9:11
10. Isaiah 17:3 : Isa 7:8, 16; 8:4
11. Isaiah 17:4 : S Isa 2:11
12. Isaiah 17:4 : S ver 3
13. Isaiah 17:4 : S Isa 10:16
14. Isaiah 17:5 : ver 11; Isa 33:4; Jer 51:33; Joel 3:13; Mt 13:30
15. Isaiah 17:5 : Job 24:24
16. Isaiah 17:5 : S Jos 17:15; S 1Ch 11:15
17. Isaiah 17:6 : S Dt 4:27; S Isa 10:19; S 24:13
18. Isaiah 17:6 : ver 11; Isa 27:12
19. Isaiah 17:7 : S Isa 2:11
20. Isaiah 17:7 : S Isa 9:13; S 10:20
21. Isaiah 17:7 : S Ps 95:6
22. Isaiah 17:7 : S Isa 12:6
23. Isaiah 17:8 : S Lev 26:30
24. Isaiah 17:8 : S 2Ch 32:19; Isa 2:18, 20; 30:22; 46:6; Rev 9:20
25. Isaiah 17:8 : S Jdg 3:7; S 2Ki 17:10
26. Isaiah 17:8 : Isa 2:8
27. Isaiah 17:9 : S Isa 7:19
28. Isaiah 17:10 : S Dt 6:12; 8:11; Ps 50:22; 106:21; Isa 51:13; 57:11; Jer 2:32; 3:21; 13:25; 18:15; Eze 22:12; 23:35; Hos 8:14; 13:6
29. Isaiah 17:10 : S Isa 12:2; S Lk 1:47
30. Isaiah 17:10 : S Ge 49:24
31. Isaiah 17:10 : S Ps 18:2
32. Isaiah 17:10 : S Isa 5:7
33. Isaiah 17:11 : Ps 90:6
34. Isaiah 17:11 : S ver 5
35. Isaiah 17:11 : S Lev 26:20; Hos 8:7; Joel 1:11; Hag 1:6
36. Isaiah 17:11 : Jer 10:19; 30:12
37. Isaiah 17:11 : S Dt 28:39; S Job 4:8
38. Isaiah 17:12 : ver 13; Isa 41:11
39. Isaiah 17:12 : S Ps 18:4; Lk 21:25
40. Isaiah 17:12 : S Ps 46:6; Isa 8:9
41. Isaiah 17:12 : Isa 8:7
42. Isaiah 17:13 : S Ps 46:3
43. Isaiah 17:13 : S Dt 28:20; S Ps 9:5
44. Isaiah 17:13 : S Ps 68:1; S Isa 13:14
45. Isaiah 17:13 : S Job 13:25; S Isa 2:22; 41:2, 15-16; Da 2:35
46. Isaiah 17:13 : Job 21:18; S Ps 65:7
47. Isaiah 17:14 : Isa 29:5; 30:13; 47:11; 48:3
48. Isaiah 17:14 : Isa 33:18; 54:14
49. Isaiah 17:14 : S 2Ki 19:35

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