Proclamation Against Syria and Israel
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and bno one will make them afraid.
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
That the glory of Jacob will1 wane,
And athe fatness of his flesh grow lean.
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the Lord God of Israel.
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
| << Isaiah 16:14 | Isaiah 17:2 >> |
Isaiah 17:1
The burden of Damascus - Which is, according to the common version, The cities of Aroer are forsaken. It has already been observed by the learned prelate that the prophecy, as it relates to Damascus, was executed in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz, probably about the third year. If we credit Midrash, the Damascenes were the most extensive and flagrant of all idolaters. "There were in Damascus three hundred and sixty-five streets, in each of these was an idol, and each idol had his peculiar day of worship; so that the whole were worshipped in the course of the year." This, or any thing like this, was a sufficient reason for this city' s destruction.
A ruinous heap - For mei , "a ruinous heap," the Septuagint reads lei , "for a ruin," the Vulgate kei , "as a ruin." I follow the former.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 17:1:
| << Isaiah 16:14 | Isaiah 17:2 >> |
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