Isaiah 17  Legacy Standard Bible

⁴ Now it will be in that day, that the ^(J)glory of Jacob will ^[e]wane,
And ^(K)the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
⁵ And it will be ^(L)even like the ^[f]reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears of grain,
Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the ^(M)valley of Rephaim.
⁶ Yet ^(N)gleanings will remain in it like the ^[g]shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost branch,
Four or five on the twigs of a fruitful tree,
Declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.
⁷ In that day man will ^(O)have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
⁸ He will not have regard for the ^(P)altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his ^(Q)fingers have made,
Even the ^[h](R)Asherim and ^[i]incense stands.
⁹ In that day ^[j]their strong cities will be like ^[k]forsaken places in the forest,
Or like ^[l]branches which they forsook before the sons of Israel;
And ^[m]the land will be a desolation.
¹⁰ For ^(S)you have forgotten the ^(T)God of your salvation
And have not remembered the ^(U)rock of your strong defense.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine branches of a strange god.
¹¹ In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the ^(V)morning you cause your seed to flourish;
But the harvest will ^(W)be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

¹² Alas, the uproar of many peoples
^(X)Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rumble on like the ^(Y)rumbling of mighty waters!
¹³ The ^(Z)nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will ^(AA)rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
And be pursued ^(AB)like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a whirlwind.
¹⁴ At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning ^(AC)they are no more.
^[n]Such will be the portion of those who pillage us
And the lot of those who plunder us.