Isaiah 17

1The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.Cross-references: Gen 14:15 · Gen 15:2 · 1Ki 11:24 · 2Ki 16:9 · 1Chr 18:5 · 2Chr 28:5 · +16 more

2The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.Cross-references: Num 32:34 · Deut 2:36 · Deut 3:12 · Josh 13:16 · Isa 5:17 · Isa 7:21 · +6 more

3The 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 Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: 2Ki 16:9 · 2Ki 17:6 · Isa 7:8 · Isa 7:16 · Isa 8:4 · Isa 10:9 · +19 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Isa 9:8 · Isa 9:21 · Isa 10:4 · Isa 10:16 · Isa 24:13 · +3 more

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 the valley of Rephaim.Cross-references: Josh 15:8 · Josh 18:16 · 2Sam 5:18 · 2Sam 5:22 · Isa 17:11 · Jer 9:22 · +6 more

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 or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: Deut 4:27 · Judg 8:2 · 1Ki 19:18 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 10:22 · Isa 24:13 · +9 more

7In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Judg 10:15 · 2Chr 30:10 · 2Chr 30:18 · 2Chr 31:1 · 2Chr 35:17 · Isa 10:20 · +12 more

8They 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.Cross-references: Ex 34:13 · 2Chr 14:5 · 2Chr 34:4 · 2Chr 34:6 · Isa 1:29 · Isa 2:8 · +14 more

9In 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.Cross-references: Isa 6:11 · Isa 7:16 · Isa 9:9 · Isa 17:4 · Isa 24:1 · Isa 27:10 · +8 more

10For 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · Lev 26:20 · Deut 6:12 · Deut 8:11 · Deut 8:14 · Deut 8:19 · +30 more

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 of grief and of desperate sorrow.Cross-references: Job 4:8 · Ps 90:6 · Isa 18:5 · Isa 65:13 · Jer 5:31 · Hos 8:7 · +8 more

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 mighty waters!Cross-references: Ps 18:4 · Ps 29:3 · Ps 46:1 · Ps 65:6 · Ps 93:3 · Isa 5:26 · +8 more

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 like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.Cross-references: Job 21:18 · Job 38:11 · Ps 1:4 · Ps 9:5 · Ps 35:5 · Ps 46:5 · +16 more

14At 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.Cross-references: Judg 5:31 · 2Ki 19:3 · 2Ki 19:35 · Job 20:29 · Ps 37:36 · Prov 22:23 · +7 more