17:1 THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. Behold,
Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;
17:2 abandoned for ever, to [be] a fold and resting-place for flocks, and
there shall be none to go after them.
17:3 And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and
there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for
thou art no better than the children of Israel, [even] than their glory;
thus saith Yehovah of hosts.
17:4 There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the
riches of his glory shall be shaken.
17:5 And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the
grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich
valley;
17:6 and [as if] there should be left stubble therein, or [as it were] the
berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or [as if] four
or five should be left on their branches; thus saith Yehovah, the Elohim of
Israel.
17:7 In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall
have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of
their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees,
nor to their abominations.
17:9 In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the
Evaeans deserted [theirs], because the of children of Israel; and they shall
be desolate.
17:10 Because thou hast forsaken Elohim thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful
of Yehovah thy helper; therefore shalt thou plant a false plant, and a
false seed.
17:11 In the day wherein thou shalt plant thou shalt be deceived; but if
thou sow in the morning, [the seed] shall spring up for a crop in the day
wherein thou shalt obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, thou shalt
obtain an inheritance for thy sons.
17:12 Woe [to] the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall
ye be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water;
17:13 many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and
they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when
men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.
17:14 Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he
shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the
inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance. |
17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall
lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the
children of Israel, saith Yehovah of hosts.
17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth
the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the
valley of Rephaim.
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive
tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five
in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith Yehovah Elohim of Israel.
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have
respect to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither
shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the
images.
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and
there shall be desolation.
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the Elohim of thy salvation, and hast not
been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt
thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day
of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise
of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the
rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but Elohim shall
rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff
of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the
whirlwind.
17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.
This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. |