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The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 17

Chapter 833 of 1,075

Canonical reference Isaiah 17

English

World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)

1. The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
2. The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
3. The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Armies.
4. “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. 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. 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 that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8. They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars.
9. In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
10. 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 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. 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. 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. At evening, behold, 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.

French

Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)

1. Oracle sur Damas. Voici Damas retirée du nombre des villes ; elle ne sera plus qu’un monceau de ruines !
2. Les villes d’Aroër sont abandonnées, elles sont livrées aux troupeaux, ils s’y reposent, et personne ne les chasse.
3. La forteresse sera ôtée à Ephraïm, et la royauté à Damas ; il en sera du reste de la Syrie comme de la gloire des enfants d’Israël, - oracle de Yahwehdes armées.
4. Et il arrivera en ce jour-là : La gloire de Jacob sera flétrie, et la graisse de son corps sera amaigrie.
5. Il en sera comme lorsque le moissonneur rassemble les gerbes, et que son bras coupe les épis ; il en sera comme lorsqu’on ramasse les épis, dans la vallée de Raphaïm.
6. Il restera un grappillage, comme lorsqu’on secoue l’olivier, deux, trois olives au haut de la cime, quatre, cinq aux branches de l’arbre, - oracle de Yahweh, le Dieu d’Israël.
7. En ce jour-là, l’homme regardera vers celui qui l’a fait, et ses yeux contempleront le Saint d’Israël.
8. Il ne regardera plus vers les autels, œuvre de ses mains ; il ne contemplera plus ce que ses doigts ont façonné, les aschérahs et les piliers du Soleil.
9. En ce jour-là, ses villes fortes seront comme les villes abandonnées dans les bois et les montagnes, qui furent abandonnées devant les enfants d’Israël ; ce sera un désert.
10. Car tu as oublié le Dieu de ton salut, tu ne t’es pas souvenu du Rocher de ta force. C’est pourquoi tu plantes des plantations agréables, et tu y mets des ceps de l’étranger.
11. Le jour ou tu les plantes, tu les entoures d’une clôture, et, le lendemain matin, tu fais fleurir tes semences ; et la moisson t’échappe au jour de la maladie et de la douleur mortelle !
12. Oh ! Rumeur de peuples nombreux ! Ils mugissent comme mugissent les mers ! Grondement des nations ! Elles grondent comme grondent les eaux puissantes.
13. Les nations grondent comme grondent les grandes eaux. Mais il les menace : elles fuient au loin ; elles sont dispersées, comme la paille des hauteurs au souffle du vent, comme un tourbillon de poussière devant l’ouragan.
14. Au temps du soir, voici la consternation ; avant le matin, ils ne sont plus. Voilà le partage de ceux qui nous pillent, et le sort de ceux qui nous dépouillent.

Latin

Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)

1. Onus Damasci. [Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas, et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.
2. Derelictæ civitates Aroër gregibus erunt, et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.
3. Et cessabit adjutorium ab Ephraim, et regnum a Damasco; et reliquiæ Syriæ sicut gloria filiorum Israël erunt, dicit Dominus exercituum.
4. Et erit in die illa: attenuabitur gloria Jacob, et pinguedo carnis ejus marcescet.
5. Et erit sicut congregans in messe quod restiterit, et brachium ejus spicas leget; et erit sicut quærens spicas in valle Raphaim.
6. Et relinquetur in eo sicut racemus et sicut excussio oleæ duarum vel trium olivarum in summitate rami, sive quatuor aut quinque in cacuminibus ejus fructus ejus, dicit Dominus Deus Israël.
7. In die illa inclinabitur homo ad factorem suum, et oculi ejus ad Sanctum Israël respicient;
8. et non inclinabitur ad altaria quæ fecerunt manus ejus; et quæ operati sunt digiti ejus non respiciet lucos et delubra.
9. In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis ejus derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israël; et eris deserta.
10. Quia oblitus es Dei salvatoris tui, et fortis adjutoris tui non es recordata: propterea plantabis plantationem fidelem, et germen alienum seminabis;
11. in die plantationis tuæ labrusca, et mane semen tuum florebit; ablata est messis in die hæreditatis, et dolebit graviter.
12. Væ multitudini populorum multorum, ut multitudo maris sonantis; et tumultus turbarum, sicut sonitus aquarum multarum.
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.
14. In tempore vespere, et ecce turbatio; in matutino, et non subsistet. Hæc est pars eorum qui vastaverunt nos, et sors diripientium nos.]

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Verses in this chapter

  1. Verse 1The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
  2. Verse 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
  3. Verse 3The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the …
  4. Verse 4“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. Verse 5It 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 …
  6. Verse 6Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four …
  7. Verse 7In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
  8. Verse 8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either …
  9. Verse 9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from …
  10. Verse 10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant…
  11. Verse 11In 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 o…
  12. Verse 12Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mi…
  13. Verse 13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased li…
  14. Verse 14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of tho…

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