Isaiæ 17
1 Onus Damasci. Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas, et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.
The burden of Damascus: "Look, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
2 Derelictae civitates Aroer gregibus erunt, et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.
Her cities will be abandoned forever. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 Et cessabit adiutorium ab Ephraim, et regnum a Damasco: et reliquiae Syriae sicut gloria filiorum Israel erunt: dicit Dominus exercituum.
The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says the LORD of hosts.
4 Et erit in die illa: attenuabitur gloria Iacob, et pinguedo carnis eius marcescet.
"It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 Et erit sicut congregans in messe quod restiterit, et brachium eius spicas leget: et erit sicut quaerens spicas in valle Raphaim.
It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Et relinquetur in eo sicut racemus, et sicut excussio oleae duarum vel trium olivarum in summitate rami, sive quattuor aut quinque in cacuminibus eius fructus eius: dicit Dominus Deus Israel.
Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful 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, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8 et non inclinabitur ad altaria, quae fecerunt manus eius: et quae operati sunt digiti eius non respiciet, lucos et delubra.
They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.
9 In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis eius derelictae sicut aratra, et segetes quae derelictae sunt a facie filiorum Israel, et eris deserta.
In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the Hivites and the Amorites, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
10 Quia oblitus es Dei salvatoris tui, et fortis adiutoris tui non es recordata: propterea plantabis plantationem infidelem, et germen alienum seminabis.
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
11 In die plantationis tuae labrusca, et mane semen tuum florebit: ablata est messis in die hereditatis, et dolebit graviter.
In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Vae multitudini populorum multorum, ut multitudo maris sonantis: et tumultus turbarum, sicut sonitus aquarum multarum.
Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty 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.
The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
14 In tempore vespere, et ecce turbatio: in matutino, et non subsistet. haec est pars eorum, qui vastaverunt nos, et sors diripientium nos.
At evening, look, terror. Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
