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)
Isaiah 17:9-14
International Standard Version
Desolation to the Nations
9 “At that time,[a] their fortified cities
that they abandoned because of the Israelis
will be like desolate places[b] of the forests and hilltops—[c]
there will be desolation.
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the Rock
that is your strength.
Therefore even though you plant delightful plants,
sowing them with imported vine-seedlings,
11 at the time that you plant them,
carefully making them grow,
the very morning you make your seed to sprout,
your harvest will be ruined[d]
in a time of grief and unbearable pain.”[e]
12 “How terrible it will be for many peoples,
who rage like the roaring sea!
Oh, how the uproar of nations
is like the sound of rushing, mighty water—
How they roar!
13 The nations roar like the rushing of many waters,[f]
but the Lord[g] will rebuke them,
and they will run far away,
chased like chaff blown down from the mountains
or like thick dust[h] that rolls along,
blown along by a wind storm.
14 When the evening arrives, watch out—sudden terror!
By morning they will be there no longer!
So it will be for those who plunder us
and what will happen to those who rob us.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:9 Lit. On that day,
- Isaiah 17:9 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads place
- Isaiah 17:9 Or the Hivites and Amorites
- Isaiah 17:11 Lit. become a pile
- Isaiah 17:11 Lit. and sorrow
- Isaiah 17:13 So 1QIsaa MT; cf. LXX; MTms Syr lack this line
- Isaiah 17:13 Lit. but he
- Isaiah 17:13 Lit. like something
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