Isaiah 17:9-14

Modern English Version

¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation
    and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength,
therefore you plant pleasant plants
    and set them with vine slips of a strange god;
¹¹ in the day that you plant it, you carefully fence it in,
    and in the morning you make your seed to flourish;
but the harvest shall be a heap of ruins
    in the day of grief and desperate pain.

¹² Woe to the multitude of many people
    who make a noise like the noise of the seas,
and the rushing of many peoples
    who make a rumble like the rumbling of mighty waters!
¹³ The nations rumble like the rumbling 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 rolling dust before the whirlwind.
¹⁴ At evening time, sudden terror!
    And before the morning, they are no more.
This is the portion of those who plunder us,
    and the lot of those who rob us.