Isaiæ 17
1 Onus Damasci. Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas, et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.
A declaration about Damascus.
2 Derelictæ civitates Aroer gregibus erunt, et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.
The cities of Aroer will be abandoned. They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will frighten them.
3 Et cessabit adiutorium ab Ephraim, et regnum a Damasco: et reliquiæ Syriæ sicut gloria filiorum Israel erunt: dicit Dominus exercituum.
Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram—they will be like the glory of the people of Israel—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
4 Et erit in die illa: attenuabitur gloria Iacob, et pinguedo carnis eius marcescet.
It will come about on that day that the glory of Jacob will become thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5 Et erit sicut congregans in messe quod restiterit, et brachium eius spicas leget: et erit sicut quærens spicas in valle Raphaim.
It will be as when a harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the heads of grain. It will be as when one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Et relinquetur in eo sicut racemus, et sicut excussio oleæ duarum vel trium olivarum in summitate rami, sive quattuor aut quinque in cacuminibus eius fructus eius: dicit Dominus Deus Israel.
Gleanings will be left, however, as when the olive tree is shaken: two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the highest branches of a fruitful tree—this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
7 In die illa inclinabitur homo ad Factorem suum, et oculi eius ad Sanctum Israel respicient:
On that day men will look toward their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 et non inclinabitur ad altaria, quæ fecerunt manus eius: et quæ operati sunt digiti eius non respiciet, lucos et delubra.
They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they look to what their fingers have made, the Asherah poles or the sun images.
9 In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis eius derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israel, et eris deserta.
On that day their strong cities will be like the abandoned wooded slopes on the hill summits, that were forsaken because of the people of Israel and that will become a desolation.
10 Quia oblitus es Dei Salvatoris tui, et fortis Adiutoris tui non es recordata: propterea plantabis plantationem fidelem, et germen alienum seminabis.
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have ignored the rock of your strength. So you plant pleasant plants, and set out vine branches received from a stranger,
11 In die plantationis tuæ labrusca, et mane semen tuum florebit: ablata est messis in die hereditatis, et dolebit graviter.
on the day you plant and hedge and cultivate. Soon your seed will grow, but the harvest will fail on a day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Væ multitudini populorum multorum, ut multitudo maris sonantis: et tumultus turbarum, sicut sonitus aquarum multarum.
Woe! The uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 Sonabunt populi sicut sonitus aquarum inundantium, et increpabit eum, et fugiet procul: et rapietur sicut pulvis montium a facie venti, et sicut turbo coram tempestate.
The nations will roar like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them and they will flee far away, they will be chased before the wind like chaff on the mountains, and like weeds whirling before a storm.
14 In tempore vespere, et ecce turbatio: in matutino, et non subsistet. Hæc est pars eorum, qui vastaverunt nos, et sors diripientium nos.
In the evening, see, terror! Before the morning they will be gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who rob us.
