Isaiah 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, And it hath been a heap — a ruin.
Onus Damasci. Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas, et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.
2 Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
Derelictæ civitates Aroer gregibus erunt, et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.
3 And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
Et cessabit adiutorium ab Ephraim, et regnum a Damasco: et reliquiæ Syriæ sicut gloria filiorum Israel erunt: dicit Dominus exercituum.
4 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Wax poor doth the honour of Jacob, And the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean.
Et erit in die illa: attenuabitur gloria Iacob, et pinguedo carnis eius marcescet.
5 And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,
Et erit sicut congregans in messe quod restiterit, et brachium eius spicas leget: et erit sicut quærens spicas in valle Raphaim.
6 And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two — three berries on the top of a branch, Four — five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel!
Et relinquetur in eo sicut racemus, et sicut excussio oleæ duarum vel trium olivarum in summitate rami, sive quattuor aut quinque in cacuminibus eius fructus eius: dicit Dominus Deus Israel.
7 In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,
In die illa inclinabitur homo ad Factorem suum, et oculi eius ad sanctum Israel respicient:
8 And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not — the shrines and the images.
et non inclinabitur ad altaria, quæ fecerunt manus eius: et quæ operati sunt digiti eius non respiciet, lucos et delubra.
9 In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.
In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis eius derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israel, et eris deserta.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,
Quia oblitus es Dei salvatoris tui, et fortis adiutoris tui non es recordata: propterea plantabis plantationem fidelem, et germen alienum seminabis.
11 In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap [is] the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.
In die plantationis tuæ labrusca, et mane semen tuum florebit: ablata est messis in die hereditatis, et dolebit graviter.
12 Woe [to] the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And [to] the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.
Væ multitudini populorum multorum, ut multitudo maris sonantis: et tumultus turbarum, sicut sonitus aquarum multarum.
13 Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
Sonabunt populi sicut sonitus aquarum inundantium, et increpabit eum, et fugiet procul: et rapietur sicut pulvis montium a facie venti, et sicut turbo coram tempestate.
14 At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This [is] the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!
In tempore vespere, et ecce turbatio: in matutino, et non subsistet. hæc est pars eorum, qui vastaverunt nos, et sors diripientium nos.
