Isaiah 17:5-14 ▼

5 and it will be as the gathering of the harvester of the standing grain, when his arm harvests the ears; and it will be as the gathering of the ears in the Valley of Rephaim;

6 and there will be left over in it gleanings, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries at the top of the bough, four or five bearing fruit in its branches.” A declaration of YHWH God of Israel.

7 In that day man will gaze upon his Maker, and his eyes will look unto the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and that which his fingers have made he will not see—the Asherahs and incense altars.

9 In that day the cities of his strength will be like the abandoned forest and summit that they abandoned before the faces of the sons of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and the Rock of your refuge you have not remembered. Upon thus you may plant plants of pleasantness, and you may sow vines of a stranger,

11 on the day you plant you make it grow, and in the morning of your sowing, you make it sprout; the harvest will flee on the day of the coming of sickness and pain that cannot be cured.

12 Woe to the multitude of many peoples—like the roaring of seas they roar! And the rumble of nations—like the rumbling of mighty waters they are crashing!

13 The peoples—like the rumbling of many waters they are crashing, and He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, and they will be chased like chaff on the mountains before the face of the wind, and like a wheel of dust before the face of the whirlwind.

14 And at the time of evening, behold the terror; before the morning he is no more! This is the portion of those plundering us and the lot of those preying on us.