Isaiah 17  Lexham English Bible

“Look! Damascus will cease being a city
    and will become a heap of ruins.
² The cities of Aroer will be deserted;^[a]
    they will be for the flocks,
        and they will lie down and no one will frighten^[b] them.
³ And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and the kingdom from Damascus;
        and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel,”

On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
    and the fat of his flesh will become lean.
⁵ And it shall be as when a reaper gathers^[d] standing grain
    and he reaps grain with his arm,
and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain
    in the valley of Rephaim.

two or three ripe olive berries in the top of a branch,
    four or five on its fruitful branches,”

⁷ On that day, mankind will look to its maker,
    and its eyes will look to the holy one of Israel;
⁸ it will not look to the altars,
    the work of its hands,
and it will not see what its fingers made
    and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars.

¹⁰ For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
    and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge;
therefore you plant plants of pleasantness,
    and you plant^[i] a vine of a foreigner.
¹¹ On your planting day you make them grow,
    and in the morning of your sowing you bring them into bloom,
yet the harvest will flee^[j] in a day of sickness and incurable pain.