In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(A) And all will be desolation.

10 You have forgotten(B) God your Savior;(C)
    you have not remembered the Rock,(D) your fortress.(E)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,(F)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning(G) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(H) will be as nothing(I)
    in the day of disease and incurable(J) pain.(K)

12 Woe to the many nations that rage(L)
    they rage like the raging sea!(M)
Woe to the peoples who roar(N)
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!(O)
13 Although the peoples roar(P) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes(Q) them they flee(R) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(S) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.(T)
14 In the evening, sudden(U) terror!(V)
    Before the morning, they are gone!(W)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    the lot of those who plunder us.

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On that day, their strong cities will be like those abandoned by the Hivites and the Amorites;[a] abandoned because of the Israelites. They will be a wasteland,

10 because you forgot the God who saves you,
    and didn’t remember the rock who shelters you.
Therefore, plant your pleasant plants,
    and set out exotic sprouts;
11     make them grow the day you plant them,
    and make them bloom the morning you start them.
But the harvest will disappear on a day of sickness and incurable pain.

12 Doom to the raging of many peoples;
    like the thundering seas they thunder.
    Doom to the roar of nations,
        like the roaring of mighty waters.
13     Nations roar like the roaring of rushing waters.
But God will rebuke them,
    and they will flee far away,
    pursued like chaff by wind in the mountains,
    like tumbleweeds before a storm.
14 In the evening, there is terror;
    but before morning it is gone.
This is the fate of those who loot us,
    the destiny of those who rob us.

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Notas al pie

  1. Isaiah 17:9 LXX; MT like the abandonment of the forest and the bough