Jesaja 17
1 Detta är tungan öfver Damascon: Si, Damascus skall ingen stad nu mer vara, utan en förfallen stenhop.
[I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Damascus [the capital of Syria]: “Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city; it will be [only] a heap of ruins!
2 Aroers städer skola, öfvergifne varda, så att hjordar skola der i bet gå, och ingen skall drifva dem ut.
The towns near Aroer [city] will be abandoned. Flocks [of sheep] will [eat grass in the streets and] lie down there, and there will be no one to chase them away.
3 Och det skall ute vara med Ephraims fäste, och Konungariket i Damasco; och det öfverblefna i Syrien skall vara såsom Israels barnas härlighet, säger Herren Zebaoth.
The cities in Israel will not have walls around them [to protect them]. The power of the kingdom of Damascus will be ended, and the few people who will remain in Damascus will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
4 På den tiden skall Jacobs härlighet tunn varda, och hans feta kropp skall mager blifva;
“At that time, Israel will become insignificant. It will be [like] [MET] a fat person who has become very thin.
5 Ty han skall varda såsom när en insamlade säd i andene, och såsom när en inbergade ax med sin arm, och såsom en upphemte ax i Rephaims dal;
The entire land will be like [SIM] a field where the harvesters have cut all the grain; there will be nothing left, like [SIM] the fields in the Rephaim Valley after all the crops have been harvested.
6 Och en efterhemtning blefve, såsom när man rister ett oljoträ och der tu eller tre bär qvarsitta uppe i skatanom; eller såsom fyra eller fem bär hänga qvar på qvistarna, säger Herren Israels Gud.
Only a few of the Israeli people will remain [MET], like [SIM] the few olives that remain on the top of a tree after the workers have caused all the other olives to fall [to the ground]. [There will be only] two or three olives in the top branches, [or] four or five olives on the other branches.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
7 På den tiden skall menniskan hålla sig intill honom, som henne gjort hafver, och hennes ögon skola se på den Heliga i Israel;
[Then], at that time, [you] people [of Israel] will (turn for help to/look up to) God, your creator, the Holy One of Israel.
8 Och skall icke hålla sig till altaren, som hennes händer gjort hafva, och icke se till det hennes finger gjort hafva, antingen till lundar eller beläte.
You will no [longer] seek to get help from your idols or worship the idols that you have made with your own hands [DOU]. You will never again bow down in front of the poles [where you worship the goddess] Asherah. You will never again worship at the shrines [that you have built for burning incense].
9 På den tiden skola hans starkhets städer varda såsom en öfvergifven telning och qvist, som öfvergifven var för Israels barn, och skola öde varda.
The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the [Canaan people-group] abandoned) when the Israelis [attacked them long ago]. No one will live there.
10 Ty du hafver förgätit Gud, den din helsa, är, och icke tänkt uppå dina starkhets klippo; derföre skall du sätta lustiga plantor, men du skall dermed satt hafva vinqvisten åt främmandom.
[That will happen] because you have stopped worshiping God who is [like] [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe. You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you. So, [now] you plant very nice grapevines and [even] plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.
11 I planterningenes tid skall du väl taga vara uppå, att din säd må tideliga växa; men åt höstenom, när du skall inberga kärfvarna, skall du få ens bedröfvadas sorg derföre.
[But] even if they sprout leaves on the day that you plant them, and even if they produce blossoms on that same morning, at harvest time, there will not be any grapes for you to pick. All that you will get is a lot of agony/misery.
12 Ack! ve det öfvermåtto myckna folket; såsom hafvet skall det brusa, och folkens rumor varder stormandes, såsom stor vatten storma.
Listen! [The armies of] many nations will roar like the sea roars. It will sound like the noise of crashing waves.
13 Ja, såsom stor vatten storma, så skola folken storma; men han skall näpsa dem, och de skola fly lång väg bort; och skall förfölja dem, såsom stoftena på bergen sker af vädret, och såsom enom väderhvirfvel sker af stormenom.
But even though their loud roaring will be like the sound of crashing waves, when Yahweh rebukes them, they will run far away. They will flee like [SIM] chaff on the hills scatters when the wind [blows], like tumbleweeds scatter when a windstorm blows.
14 Om aftonen, si, så är förskräckelse på färde, och förr än morgonen varder, så äro de intet till. Detta är deras lön, som oss röfva, och deras arfvedel, som taga oss vårt ifrå.
And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning [your enemies] will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and [then] steal our possessions.
