Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 17

An about : Look — Damascus will stop being a city. It will become a heap of .The towns around will be abandoned — they’ll become places for to lie down, with no one to disturb them.The fortified city will vanish from , and royal power from Damascus. What’s left of Aram will be like the fading glory of Israel’s people — this is the of Yahweh, .On that day, ’s will waste away and the richness of his body will grow thin.It will be like a gathering standing grain, his arm reaping the heads of wheat — like someone gleaning ears of grain in the .But will be left over — like shaking an : two or three olives at the very top, four or five on the fruitful branches — this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel.On that day, people will look to their , and their eyes will turn toward .They will not look to the their own hands built, or turn toward what their fingers shaped — not the , not the .On that day, their will be like the abandoned places in the forests and hilltops that were deserted when the Israelites came — and it will all be .Because you forgot the God who you and didn’t remember the who shelters you — that’s why you plant beautiful gardens and set out .On the day you plant them, you fence them in; in the morning you coax your seedlings to bloom — but the will vanish on a day of sickness and .Oh! The of many peoples — they roar like the roaring of the sea! The crashing of nations — they crash like the crashing of !The nations crash like the crashing of many waters — but he them and they flee far away, chased like on the hills before the wind, like before a storm.At evening — sudden . Before morning — they are gone. This is what happens to those who us, the of those who loot us.