{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:40:40.888Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":17,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":14},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"in the day of thy planting wilt thou make them to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; but the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas; and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 17 (DBT)","markdown":"[Isaiah 17](https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/17 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}