Isaiah Chapter 17

Judgments upon Damascus and Samaria. The overthrow of the Assyrians.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 The burden of Damascus.

Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.
2 The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.
3 And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: and the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory of the children of Israel: saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.
5 And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest that which remaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears of corn: and it shall be as he that seeketh ears in the vale of Raphaim.
6 And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.
7 In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.
9 In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the ploughs, and the corn that were left before the face of the children of Israel, and thou shalt be desolate. That were left... Viz., by the Chanaanites, when the children of Israel came into their land.
10 Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.
11 In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters. The multitude, etc... This and all that follows to the end of the chapter, relates to the Assyrian army under Sennacherib.
13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.
14 In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Onus Damasci.

Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas,
et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.
2 Derelictæ civitates Aroër
gregibus erunt,
et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.
3 Et cessabit adjutorium ab Ephraim,
et regnum a Damasco;
et reliquiæ Syriæ
sicut gloria filiorum Israël erunt,
dicit Dominus exercituum.
4 Et erit in die illa:
attenuabitur gloria Jacob,
et pinguedo carnis ejus marcescet.
5 Et erit sicut congregans in messe quod restiterit,
et brachium ejus spicas leget;
et erit sicut quærens spicas
in valle Raphaim.
6 Et relinquetur in eo sicut racemus et sicut excussio oleæ
duarum vel trium olivarum in summitate rami,
sive quatuor aut quinque in cacuminibus ejus fructus ejus,
dicit Dominus Deus Israël.
7 In die illa inclinabitur homo ad
factorem suum,
et oculi ejus ad Sanctum Israël respicient;
8 et non inclinabitur ad altaria quæ fecerunt manus ejus;
et quæ operati sunt digiti ejus non respiciet
lucos et delubra.
9 In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis ejus
derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes
quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israël;
et eris deserta.
10 Quia oblitus es Dei salvatoris tui,
et fortis adjutoris tui non es recordata:
propterea plantabis plantationem fidelem,
et germen alienum seminabis;
11 in die plantationis tuæ labrusca,
et mane semen tuum florebit;
ablata est messis in die hæreditatis,
et dolebit graviter.
12 Væ multitudini populorum multorum,
ut multitudo maris sonantis;
et tumultus turbarum,
sicut sonitus aquarum multarum.
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.
14 In tempore vespere, et ecce turbatio;
in matutino, et non subsistet.
Hæc est pars eorum qui vastaverunt nos,
et sors diripientium nos.

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