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Isaiah
Chapter 17
1 The burden of Damascus.
"Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city,
and
it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken.
They
shall be for flocks,
which
shall lie down,
and
none shall make them afraid.
3
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim,
and
the kingdom from Damascus,
and
the remnant of Syria.
They
shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,"
said
Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts.
4
"And in that day
it
shall come to pass,
that
the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,
and
the fatness of his flesh shall grow/wax lean.
5
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn,
and
reaps the ears with his arm.
And it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it,
as
the shaking of an olive tree,
two
or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough,
four
or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof,"
said
Jehovah/God 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel.
7
At that day
shall
a man look to his Maker,
and
his eyes shall have respect
to
the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars . . . the work of his hands.
Neither
shall respect that which his fingers have made . . .
either
'Asherah/Astartes
{'Asherah - female god of the Phallic Cult - name means 'groves' -
they would go out on high hills with groves and trees and have
sexual orgies with child sacrifice to 'worship Baal and Asherah/
Astartes},
or
the 'incense altars' {chamman - used in idolatry}.
9
In that day
shall
his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,
and
an uppermost branch,
which
they left because of the children of Israel
and
there shall be desolation.
10
Because you have forgotten the 'Elohiym/Godhead
of
your deliverance/salvation,
and
has not been mindful of the Rock of your strength,
therefore
shall you plant pleasant plants,
and
shall set it with strange slips.
{Note: Up until the Millennial Rule of Christ, many Jews will reject Him as the Rock of Ages.}
11
In the day
shall
you make your plant to grow,
and
in the morning
shall
you make your seed to flourish.
But
the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief
and
of desperate sorrow.
12
Woe to the multitude of many people,
which
make a noise like the noise of the seas.
And
to the rushing of nations,
that
make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters.
But
'Elohiym/Godhead shall rebuke them,
and
they shall flee far off,
and
shall be chased
as
the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
and
like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14
And behold at evening time trouble . . .
and
before the morning he is not.
This
is the portion of those who spoil us,
and
the lot of those who rob us.
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