Isaiah 17:7-14 ▼

7 In that day shall a man regard his Maker, And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not regard the altars, The work of his hands, Neither shall he look to that which his fingers have made, Either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

9 In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.

10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And thou hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy stronghold; Therefore thou didst plant plants of pleasantness, And didst set it with slips of a stranger;

11 In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow, And in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom-- A heap of boughs in the day of grief And of desperate pain.

12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, That roar like the roaring of the seas; And the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; But He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, And shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, And like the whirling dust before the storm.

14 At eventide behold terror; And before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, And the lot of them that rob us.