Isaiah 17-18

New American Standard Bible

⁴ Now on that day the ^(J)glory of Jacob will ^[e]fade,
And ^(K)the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
⁵ It will be ^(L)like the ^[f]reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears,
Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain
In the ^(M)Valley of Rephaim.
⁶ Yet ^(N)gleanings will be left in it like the ^[g]shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost branch,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
⁷ On that day man will ^(O)look to his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
⁸ And he will not look to 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 incense altars.
⁹ On that day ^[i]their strong cities will be like ^[j]abandoned places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And ^[k]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 refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.
¹¹ On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the ^(V)morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will ^(W)flee
On a day of illness and incurable pain.

¹² Oh, the uproar of many peoples
^(X)Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush 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 chased ^(AB)like chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
¹⁴ At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning ^(AC)they are gone.
This will be the ^[l]fate of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.