KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 17
Syria and Israel are threatened. A remnant shall forsake idolatry. The rest shall be plagued for their impiety.
1The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus is turned aside from being a city, and it shall be a ruined heap.
2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they are for flocks; they lie down and no one terrifies them.
3And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim; and the kingdom from Damascus and the rest of Syria. They shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts.
4And it shall be in that day, Jacob's glory shall be made low, and the fatness of his flesh shall be made lean.
5And it shall be as he gathers the grain of the harvest, and his arm reaps the ears. And it shall be as he who gathers ears in the Valley of the Giants.
6Yet gleanings shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree; two or three oliveberries in the top of a branch; four or five in the fruitful branches,a statement of Jehovah God of Israel;
7in that day a man shall gaze on his Maker. and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8And he shall not gaze to the altars, the work of his hands; and he will not see what his fingers have made, even the Asherahs, and the sun pillars.
9In that day his fortified cities shall be as a thing left in the forest, or the top of a branch that they leave, from before the sons of Israel, and it will become a desolation.
10Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you did not remember the Rock of your strength, on account of this you shall plant plants of pleasantness, and shall sow it a foreign shoot.
11In the day of your planting you fence it in; in the morning you make your seed sprout; the harvest is a heap in the day of sickness and incurable pain.
12Woe to the multitude of many peoples; they roar like the roar of seas; and the crash of nations, they crash like the crash of mighty waters!
13The nations shall crash like the crashing of many waters, but He rebukes it, and it flees far away; yea, it is pursued like the chaff of mountains before the wind, and like a whirling thing before a tempest.
14At the time of evening, even behold, terror! Before it is morning, it shall not be. This is the portion of those plundering us, and the lot of those spoiling us.
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