17:1 An
oracle
concerning
Damascus.
Behold,
Damascus
will
cease
to
be
a
city
and
will
become
a
heap
of
ruins.
17:2 The
cities
of
Aroer
are
deserted;
they
will
be
for
flocks,
which
will
lie
down,
and
none
will
make
them
afraid.
17:3 The
fortress
will
disappear
from
Ephraim,
and
the
kingdom
from
Damascus;
and
the
remnant
of
Syria
will
be
like
the
glory
of
the
children
of
Israel,
declares
the
LORD
of
hosts.
17:4 And
in
that
day
the
glory
of
Jacob
will
be
brought
low,
and
the
fat
of
his
flesh
will
grow
lean.
17:5 And
it
shall
be
as
when
the
reaper
gathers
standing
grain
and
his
arm
harvests
the
ears,
and
as
when
one
gleans
the
ears
of
grain
in
the
Valley
of
Rephaim.
17:6 Gleanings
will
be
left
in
it,
as
when
an
olive
tree
is
beaten--
two
or
three
berries
in
the
top
of
the
highest
bough,
four
or
five
on
the
branches
of
a
fruit
tree,
declares
the
LORD
God
of
Israel.
17:7 In
that
day
man
will
look
to
his
Maker,
and
his
eyes
will
look
on
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
17:8 He
will
not
look
to
the
altars,
the
work
of
his
hands,
and
he
will
not
look
on
what
his
own
fingers
have
made,
either
the
Asherim
or
the
altars
of
incense.
17:9 In
that
day
their
strong
cities
will
be
like
the
deserted
places
of
the
wooded
heights
and
the
hilltops,
which
they
deserted
because
of
the
children
of
Israel,
and
there
will
be
desolation.
17:10 For
you
have
forgotten
the
God
of
your
salvation
and
have
not
remembered
the
Rock
of
your
refuge;
therefore,
though
you
plant
pleasant
plants
and
sow
the
vine-branch
of
a
stranger,
17:11 though
you
make
them
grow
on
the
day
that
you
plant
them,
and
make
them
blossom
in
the
morning
that
you
sow,
yet
the
harvest
will
flee
away
in
a
day
of
grief
and
incurable
pain.
17:12 Ah,
the
thunder
of
many
peoples;
they
thunder
like
the
thundering
of
the
sea!
Ah,
the
roar
of
nations;
they
roar
like
the
roaring
of
mighty
waters!
17:13 The
nations
roar
like
the
roaring
of
many
waters,
but
he
will
rebuke
them,
and
they
will
flee
far
away,
chased
like
chaff
on
the
mountains
before
the
wind
and
whirling
dust
before
the
storm.
17:14 At
evening
time,
behold,
terror!
Before
morning,
they
are
no
more!
This
is
the
portion
of
those
who
loot
us,
and
the
lot
of
those
who
plunder
us.
