Isaiah 17:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 On that day his strong cities shall be
like those abandoned by the Hivites and Amorites
When faced with the Israelites;
and there shall be desolation.(A)
10 Truly, you have forgotten the God who saves you,
the Rock, your refuge, you have not remembered.(B)
Therefore, though you plant plants for the Pleasant One,[a]
and set out cuttings for a foreign one,(C)
11 Though you make them grow the day you plant them
and make them blossom the morning you set them out,
The harvest shall disappear on a day of sickness
and incurable pain.
Footnotes
- 17:10 The Pleasant One: an epithet for a foreign god of fertility, probably Adonis, in whose honor saplings were planted.
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