Welcome to the Quick Study of Isaiah. Today we’re in chapter 17 and it’s entitled Prophecy About Damascus. Awe-inspired reverence is due Him. Some of it has been fulfilled as you will see in the footnotes included, but not all of it yet. At least as I can figure. Before we start looking though, let’s pray.
Lord Jesus, these words are difficult to understand. Help us see, help us understand. Lead us, Lord.
Isaiah 17 – Amplified Version
Please read Isaiah 17:7-10a
7 In that day man will have regard for his Maker,
And his eyes will regard the Holy One of Israel [with awe-inspired reverence].
8 And he will not have regard for the [idolatrous] altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
Neither the Asherim (symbols of the goddess Asherah) nor the incense altars.
9 In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like [b]deserted places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.
10 Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Awe-inspired reverence is how to see Jesus.
They forgot the God of their salvation and the Rock of their Stronghold, and Terrible things will happen because they did so.
Jesus is the only way. It’s only through Him and in Him that we are saved.
Praise be to You, Lord Jesus, for all You’ve already done and for all You do for us each moment of each day.
Footnotes
- [a] Isaiah 17:1 I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.
- [b] Isaiah 17:9 Greek reads, the deserted places of the Amorites and Hivites, which they abandoned.
- [c] Isaiah 17:10 Or gardens of Adonis, a mythological god.
- [d] Isaiah 17:14 The fulfillment of this prophecy (cf also Is 10:33, 34; 30:31; 31:8) is found in Is 37:36, following the repetition of the prophecy first recorded in 2 Kin 19:29-36. Just when an overwhelming victory by the Assyrian Sennacherib seemed inevitable, during a single night 185,000 of his army died, and Judah was spared—as the Lord through Isaiah had promised.