Font Size
Isaiah 17:7-14
New International Version
Isaiah 17:7-14
New International Version
7 In that day(A) people will look(B) to their Maker(C)
and turn their eyes to the Holy One(D) of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,(E)
the work of their hands,(F)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](G)
and the incense altars their fingers(H) have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(I) And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten(J) God your Savior;(K)
you have not remembered the Rock,(L) your fortress.(M)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,(N)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning(O) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(P) will be as nothing(Q)
in the day of disease and incurable(R) pain.(S)
12 Woe to the many nations that rage(T)—
they rage like the raging sea!(U)
Woe to the peoples who roar(V)—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!(W)
13 Although the peoples roar(X) like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes(Y) them they flee(Z) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(AA) on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.(AB)
14 In the evening, sudden(AC) terror!(AD)
Before the morning, they are gone!(AE)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
Isaiah 17:7-14
King James Version
Isaiah 17:7-14
King James Version
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Read full chapter
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.