Isaiah 17:3-11

3 The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,” declares the LORD Almighty.
4 “In that day the glory of Jacob will fade; the fat of his body will waste away.
5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms— as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
7 In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a]and the incense altars their fingers have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines,
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.

Cross References 30

  • 1. Isaiah 25:2,12; Hosea 10:14
  • 2. ver 4; Isaiah 21:16; Hosea 9:11
  • 3. Isaiah 7:8,16; Isaiah 8:4
  • 4. S Isaiah 2:11
  • 5. S ver 3
  • 6. S Isaiah 10:16
  • 7. ver 11; Isaiah 33:4; Jeremiah 51:33; Joel 3:13; Matthew 13:30
  • 8. Job 24:24
  • 9. S Joshua 17:15; S 1 Chronicles 11:15
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 4:27; S Isaiah 10:19; S Isaiah 24:13
  • 11. ver 11; Isaiah 27:12
  • 12. S Isaiah 2:11
  • 13. S Isaiah 9:13; S Isaiah 10:20
  • 14. S Psalms 95:6
  • 15. S Isaiah 12:6; Micah 7:7
  • 16. S Leviticus 26:30
  • 17. S 2 Chronicles 32:19; Isaiah 2:18,20; Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 46:6; Revelation 9:20
  • 18. S Judges 3:7; S 2 Kings 17:10
  • 19. Isaiah 2:8
  • 20. S Isaiah 7:19
  • 21. S Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:11; Psalms 50:22; Psalms 106:21; Isaiah 51:13; Isaiah 57:11; Jeremiah 2:32; Jeremiah 3:21; Jeremiah 13:25; Jeremiah 18:15; Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 23:35; Hosea 8:14; Hosea 13:6
  • 22. Psalms 68:19; S Isaiah 12:2; S Luke 1:47
  • 23. S Genesis 49:24
  • 24. S Psalms 18:2
  • 25. S Isaiah 5:7
  • 26. Psalms 90:6
  • 27. S ver 5
  • 28. S Leviticus 26:20; Hosea 8:7; Joel 1:11; Haggai 1:6
  • 29. Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 30:12
  • 30. S Deuteronomy 28:39; S Job 4:8

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
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