Isaiah 17:9–14

9 On that day, ⌊its fortified cities⌋g will be like the ⌊abandonment of the wooded place and the summit⌋,h which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.

10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,

and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge;

therefore you plant plants of pleasantness,

and you ⌊plant⌋i a vine of a foreigner.

11 On your planting day you make them grow,

and in the morning of your sowing you bring them into bloom,

yet the harvest will fleej in a day of sickness and incurable pain.

The Roar of the Peoples

12 Ah! The noise of many peoples, they make a noise like the noise of the seas!

And the roar of nations, they roar like the roar of mighty waters!

13 The nations roar like the roar of many waters,

but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away.

And they are chased like chaff of the mountains before the wind

and like tumbleweed before the storm.

14 At the time of evening, and look, terror!

Before morning he is no more.

This is the fate of those who plunder us

and the lot of those who plunder us.