Isaiah 17:3

Proclamation Against Syria and Israel

1 The ^aburden against Damascus.
“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of ^aAroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and ^bno one will make them afraid.

3 ^aThe fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
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.

4 “In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will¹ wane,
And ^athe fatness of his flesh grow lean.

5 ^aIt shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.

6 ^aYet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
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.

7 In that day a man will ^alook to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

8 He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his ^afingers have made,
Nor the¹ wooden images nor the incense altars.

9 In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken¹ bough
And¹ an uppermost branch,
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 17:3

The remnant of Syria "The pride of Syria" - For shear , "remnant," Houbigant reads seeth , "pride," answering, as the sentence seems evidently to require, to cabod , "the glory of Israel." The conjecture is so very probable that I venture to follow it.

As the glory - bichbod , "In the glory," is the reading of eight MSS., and ten editions.

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