Isaiæ 17

VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Onus Damasci. Ecce Damascus desinet esse civitas, et erit sicut acervus lapidum in ruina.	1 Oracle on Damascus: Lo, Damascus shall cease to be a city and become a ruin;
2 Derelictæ civitates Aroër gregibus erunt, et requiescent ibi, et non erit qui exterreat.	2 Her cities shall be forever abandoned, given over to flocks to lie in undisturbed.
3 Et cessabit adjutorium ab Ephraim, et regnum a Damasco ; et reliquiæ Syriæ sicut gloria filiorum Israël erunt, dicit Dominus exercituum.	3 The fortress shall be lost to Ephraim and the kingdom to Damascus; The remnant of Aram shall have the same glory as the Israelites, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Et erit in die illa : attenuabitur gloria Jacob, et pinguedo carnis ejus marcescet.	4 On that day The glory of Jacob shall fade, and his full body grow thin,
5 Et erit sicut congregans in messe quod restiterit, et brachium ejus spicas leget ; et erit sicut quærens spicas in valle Raphaim.	5 Like the reaper's mere armful of stalks when he gathers the standing grain; Or as when one gleans the ears in the Valley of Rephaim.
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.	6 Only a scattering of grapes shall be left! As when an olive tree has been beaten, Two or three olives remain at the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches, says the LORD, the God of Israel.
7 In die illa inclinabitur homo ad factorem suum, et oculi ejus ad Sanctum Israël respicient ;	7 On that day man shall look to his maker, his eyes turned toward the Holy One of Israel.
8 et non inclinabitur ad altaria quæ fecerunt manus ejus ; et quæ operati sunt digiti ejus non respiciet lucos et delubra.	8 He shall not look to the altars, his handiwork, nor shall he regard what his fingers have made: the sacred poles or the incense stands.
9 In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis ejus derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israël ; et eris deserta.	9 On that day his strong cities shall be like those abandoned by the Hivites and Amorites When faced with the children of Israel: they shall be laid waste.
10 Quia oblitus es Dei salvatoris tui, et fortis adjutoris tui non es recordata : propterea plantabis plantationem fidelem, et germen alienum seminabis ;	10 For you have forgotten God, your savior, and remembered not the Rock, your strength. Therefore, though you plant your pagan plants and set out your foreign vine slips,
11 in die plantationis tuæ labrusca, et mane semen tuum florebit ; ablata est messis in die hæreditatis, et dolebit graviter.	11 Though you make them grow the day you plant them and make your sprouts blossom on the next morning, The harvest shall disappear on the day of the grievous blow, the incurable blight.
12 Væ multitudini populorum multorum, ut multitudo maris sonantis ; et tumultus turbarum, sicut sonitus aquarum multarum.	12 Ah! the roaring of many peoples that roar like the roar of the seas! The surging of nations that surge like the surging of mighty waves!
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.	13 But God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away; Windswept, like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweed in 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.	14 In the evening, they spread terror, before morning, they are gone! Such is the portion of those who despoil us, the lot of those who plunder us.