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Isaiah 17

Isaiah 17:9

The Burden against Damascus · Isaiah 17:1–14
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Translations

Modern
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
Traditional
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Literal
In that day the cities of his strength will be like the abandoned forest and summit that they abandoned before the faces of the sons of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
Latin
In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis ejus derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israël; et eris deserta.

Original

Hebrew
English
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

Notes

Isaiah 17:9

The Hivites and Amorites were part of the original people living in Canaan. The Israelites were to destroy them when they conquered the land (see Deuteronomy 20:17).

Isaiah 17:4–11

The vision shifts from Damascus (Isaiah 17:1–3) to Israel's northern kingdom. Damascus and Israel were allies against Judah, but Assyria later destroyed both.

Isaiah 17:1–20:6

This section includes predictions of judgment against Damascus, Israel, Ethiopia, and Egypt. The scene shifts from the crisis in 734 BC (the alliance of Syria and Israel; see study note on Isaiah 7:1–25) to the Assyrian crisis in 701 BC (see Isaiah 36–37).

Events

Parallels

Jeremiah 49:23–27

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Horites Isaiah, Book of

Topics

Church: Backslidden Cities were Frequently: Depopulated Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments