Commentary on Isaiah Volume 1 John Calvin
Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17
Isaiah Chapter 17:1-14 1. The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
1. Onus Damasci. Ecce Damascus ablata est, ne sit civitas; nam erit acervus ruinæ.
2. The Cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
2. Derelictæ sunt urbes Aroer, in caulus vertentur; accubabunt, nec erit qui exterreat.
3. 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 the Lord of hosts.
3. Et cessabit præsidium ab Ephraim, et regnum a Damasco. Et reliquiæ Syriæ, quasi gloriæ filiorum Israel erunt, dicit Iehova exercituum.
4. 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 wax lean.
4. Et erit in die illa, attenuabitur gloria Iacob, et pinguedo carnis ejus macrescet.
5. And it shall be, as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
5. Et erit sicut qui colligit messem segitis, qui brachio suo spicas metit; similiter ut quis colligit spicas in valle Rephaim.
6. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches therof, saith the Lord God of Israel.