Isaiæ 17
1 Onus Damasci. Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas, et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.
The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.
2 Derelictæ civitates Aroer gregibus erunt, et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.
Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
3 Et cessabit adiutorium ab Ephraim, et regnum a Damasco: et reliquiæ Syriæ sicut gloria filiorum Israel erunt: dicit Dominus exercituum.
The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.
4 Et erit in die illa: attenuabitur gloria Iacob, et pinguedo carnis eius marcescet.
And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.
5 Et erit sicut congregans in messe quod restiterit, et brachium eius spicas leget: et erit sicut quærens spicas in valle Raphaim.
And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 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.
But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In die illa inclinabitur homo ad Factorem suum, et oculi eius ad Sanctum Israel respicient:
In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 et non inclinabitur ad altaria, quæ fecerunt manus eius: et quæ operati sunt digiti eius non respiciet, lucos et delubra.
He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
9 In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis eius derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israel, et eris deserta.
In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.
10 Quia oblitus es Dei Salvatoris tui, et fortis Adiutoris tui non es recordata: propterea plantabis plantationem fidelem, et germen alienum seminabis.
For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;
11 In die plantationis tuæ labrusca, et mane semen tuum florebit: ablata est messis in die hereditatis, et dolebit graviter.
In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
12 Væ multitudini populorum multorum, ut multitudo maris sonantis: et tumultus turbarum, sicut sonitus aquarum multarum.
Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!
13 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.
But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
14 In tempore vespere, et ecce turbatio: in matutino, et non subsistet. Hæc est pars eorum, qui vastaverunt nos, et sors diripientium nos.
In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
