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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[a] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:11 Reading the same consonants as a verb, nad, rather than the noun ned, which would mean “a heap ofthe harvest”