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On that day, its fortified cities[a] will be like the abandonment of the wooded place and the summit,[b] 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[c] 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 flee[d] in a day of sickness and incurable pain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:9 Literally “the cities of his fortress”
  2. Isaiah 17:9 Perhaps this difficult phrase originally read “abandonment of the wooded heights of the Amorites”
  3. Isaiah 17:10 Literally “plant it”
  4. Isaiah 17:11 Reading the same consonants as a verb, nad, rather than the noun ned, which would mean “a heap ofthe harvest”

In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(A) And all will be desolation.

10 You have forgotten(B) God your Savior;(C)
    you have not remembered the Rock,(D) your fortress.(E)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,(F)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning(G) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(H) will be as nothing(I)
    in the day of disease and incurable(J) pain.(K)

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