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10 For you ignore[a] the God who rescues you;
you pay no attention to your strong protector.[b]
So this is what happens:
You cultivate beautiful plants
and plant exotic vines.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:10 tn Heb “you have forgotten” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
  2. Isaiah 17:10 tn Heb “and the rocky cliff of your strength you do not remember.”
  3. Isaiah 17:10 tn Heb “a vine, a strange one.” The substantival adjective זָר (zar) functions here as an appositional genitive. It could refer to a cultic plant of some type, associated with a pagan rite. But it is more likely that it refers to an exotic, or imported, type of vine, one that is foreign (i.e., “strange”) to Israel.

10 You have forgotten(A) God your Savior;(B)
    you have not remembered the Rock,(C) your fortress.(D)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,(E)

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