Isaiah 17:9-14
New American Standard Bible
9 On that day [a]their strong cities will be like [b]abandoned places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And [c]the land will be a desolation.
10 For (A)you have forgotten the (B)God of your salvation
And have not remembered the (C)rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.
11 On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the (D)morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will (E)flee
On a day of illness and incurable pain.
12 Oh, the uproar of many peoples
(F)Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the (G)rumbling of mighty waters!
13 The (H)nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will (I)rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
And be chased (J)like chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
14 At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning (K)they are gone.
This will be the [d]fate of those who plunder us
And the lot of those who pillage us.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:9 Lit his; i.e., mankind’s
- Isaiah 17:9 LXX the deserted places of the Amorites and the Hivites which they abandoned
- Isaiah 17:9 Lit it
- Isaiah 17:14 Lit portion
Isaiah 17:9-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 On that day their fortified cities will be like the deserted places of the Hivites and the Amorites,[a] which they deserted because of the people of Israel, and there will be desolation.(A)
10 For you have forgotten God your Savior
and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant gardens
and set out branches of a foreign god,(B)
11 though you make them grow on the day that you plant them
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away
in a day of sickness and incurable pain.(C)
12 Woe, the thunder of many peoples,
they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
The roar of nations,
they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!(D)
13 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]][b]
he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and like whirling dust before the storm.(E)
14 At evening time, sudden terror!
Before morning, they are no more.
This is the fate of those who despoil us
and the lot of those who plunder us.(F)
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