Isaiah 17

1 ♥ 📝 T he burden^H4853 of Damascus.^H1834 Behold, Damascus^H1834 is taken away^H5493 from being a city,^H5892 and it shall be a ruinous^H4654 heap.^H4596

2 ♥ 📝 The cities^H5892 of Aroer^H6177 are forsaken;^H5800 they shall be for flocks,^H5739 which shall lie down,^H7257 and none shall make them afraid.^H2729

3 ♥ 📝 And the fortress^H4013 shall cease^H7673 from Ephraim,^H669 and the kingdom^H4467 from Damascus,^H1834 and the remnant^H7605 of Syria;^H758 they shall be as the glory^H3519 of the children^H1121 of Israel,^H3478 saith^H5002 Jehovah^H3068 of hosts.^H6635

4 ♥ 📝 And it shall come to pass in that day,^H3117 that the glory^H3519 of Jacob^H3290 shall be made thin,^H1809 and the fatness^H4924 of his flesh^H1320 shall wax lean.^H7329

5 ♥ 📝 And it shall be as when the harvestman^H7105 gathereth^H622 the standing grain,^H7054 and his arm^H2220 reapeth^H7114 the ears;^H7641 yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth^H3950 ears^H7641 in the valley^H6010 of Rephaim.^H7497

6 ♥ 📝 Yet there shall be left^H7604 therein gleanings,^H5955 as the shaking^H5363 of an olive-tree,^H2132 two^H8147 or three^H7969 berries^H1620 in the top^H7218 of the uppermost bough,^H534 four^H702 or five^H2568 in the outmost branches^H5585 of a fruitful^H6509 tree, saith^H5002 Jehovah,^H3068 the God^H430 of Israel.^H3478

7 ♥ 📝 In that day^H3117 shall men^H120 look^H8159 unto their Maker,^H6213 and their eyes^H5869 shall have respect^H7200 to the Holy^H6918 One of Israel.^H3478

8 ♥ 📝 And they shall not look^H8159 to the altars,^H4196 the work^H4639 of their hands;^H3027 neither shall they have respect^H7200 to that which their fingers^H676 have made,^H6213 either the Asherim,^H842 or the sun-images.^H2553

9 ♥ 📝 In that day^H3117 shall their strong^H4581 cities^H5892 be as the forsaken^H5800 places^H2793 in the wood^H534 and on the mountain top, which^H6440 were forsaken^H5800 from before the children^H1121 of Israel;^H3478 and it shall be a desolation.^H8077

10 ♥ 📝 For thou hast forgotten^H7911 the God^H430 of thy salvation,^H3468 and hast not been mindful^H2142 of the rock^H6697 of thy strength;^H4581 therefore thou plantest^H5193 pleasant^H5282 plants,^H5193 and settest^H2232 it with strange^H2114 slips.^H2156

11 ♥ 📝 In the day^H3117 of thy planting^H5194 thou hedgest^H7735 it in, and in the morning^H1242 thou makest thy seed^H2233 to blossom;^H6524 but the harvest^H7105 fleeth away^H5067 in the day^H3117 of grief^H2470 and of desperate^H605 sorrow.^H3511

12 ♥ 📝 Ah,^H1945 the uproar^H1995 of many^H1995 peoples,^H5971 that roar^H1993 like the roaring^H1993 of the seas;^H3220 and the rushing^H7588 of nations,^H3816 that rush like the rushing^H7582 of mighty^H3524 waters!^H4325

13 ♥ 📝 The nations^H3816 shall rush^H7582 like the rushing^H7588 of many^H7227 waters:^H4325 but he shall rebuke^H1605 them, and they shall flee^H5127 far off,^H4801 and shall be chased^H7291 as the chaff^H4671 of the mountains^H2022 before^H6440 the wind,^H7307 and like the whirling dust^H1534 before^H6440 the storm.^H5492

14 ♥ 📝 At eventide,^H6256 behold, terror;^H1091 [and] before the morning^H1242 they are not. This is the portion^H2506 of them that despoil^H8154 us, and the lot^H1486 of them that rob^H962 us.