Isaiah 以赛亚书17

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17An oracle¹ concerning Damascus: "See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.
2The cities of Aroer will be deserted² and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.
3The fortified³ city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites," declares the Lord Almighty⁴.
4"In that day the glory of Jacob will fade; the fat of his body will waste away.
5It will be as when a reaper⁵ gathers the standing⁶ grain and harvests the grain with his arm- as when a man gleans⁷ heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
6Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs," declares the Lord , the God of Israel.
7In that day men will look to their Maker⁸ and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense⁹ altars their fingers have made.
9In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets¹⁰ and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress¹¹. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines,
11though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable¹² pain.
12Oh, the raging of many nations- they rage like the raging sea! Oh, the uproar¹³ of the peoples- they roar like the roaring of great waters!
13Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes¹⁴ them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff¹⁵ on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale¹⁶.
14In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder¹⁷ us.

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