Isaiah 17:5 - John Wesley's Notes

Isaiah 17:5

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.

10 Because you have forgotten ^athe God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your¹ stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;

11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

12 Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise ^alike the roar of the seas,
And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will ^arebuke them and they will flee far away,
And ^bbe chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

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Isaiah 17:5

Gathereth - Taking care, as far as may be, that all may be gathered in, and nothing left. So shall the whole body of the ten tribes be carried away captive, some few gleanings only being left. Rephaim - A very fruitful place near Jerusalem.

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