Isaiah 17:1-5

The ¹^aoracle concerning ^bDamascus.

“Behold, Damascus is about to be ^cremoved from being a city

And will become a ^dfallen ruin.

The cities ¹of ^aAroer are forsaken;

They will be for ^bflocks, and they will lie down in them;

And there will be ^cno one to cause them to tremble.

And the ¹^afortified city will cease from Ephraim,

And ²sovereignty from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram;

They will be like the ^bglory of the sons of Israel,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

Now it will be in that day, that the ^aglory of Jacob will ¹wane,

And ^bthe fatness of his flesh will become lean.

And it will be ^aeven like the ¹reaper gathering the standing grain,

As his arm harvests the ears of grain,

Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain

In the ^bvalley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17:9-11

In that day ¹their strong cities will be like ²forsaken places in the forest,

Or like ³branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;

And ⁴the land will be a desolation.

For ^ayou have forgotten the ^bGod of your salvation

And have not remembered the ^crock of your strong defense.

Therefore you plant delightful plants

And set them with vine branches of a strange god.

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,

And in the ^amorning you cause your seed to flourish;

But the harvest will ^bbe a heap

In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.