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10 You have forgotten the God who saves you;
    you have not remembered that God is your place of safety.
You plant the finest grapevines
    and grapevines from faraway places.
11 You plant your grapevines one day and try to make them grow,
    and the next day you make them blossom.
But at harvest time everything will be dead;
    a sickness will kill all the plants.

12 Listen to the many people!
    Their crying is like the noise from the sea.
Listen to the nations!
    Their crying is like the crashing of great waves.

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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)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning(F) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(G) will be as nothing(H)
    in the day of disease and incurable(I) pain.(J)

12 Woe to the many nations that rage(K)
    they rage like the raging sea!(L)
Woe to the peoples who roar(M)
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!(N)

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