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10 Truly, you have forgotten the God who saves you,
    the Rock, your refuge, you have not remembered.(A)
Therefore, though you plant plants for the Pleasant One,[a]
    and set out cuttings for a foreign one,(B)
11 Though you make them grow the day you plant them
    and make them blossom the morning you set them out,
The harvest shall disappear on a day of sickness
    and incurable pain.
12 Ah! the roaring of many peoples—[b]
    a roar like the roar of the seas!
The thundering of nations—
    thunder like the thundering of mighty waters!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 17:10 The Pleasant One: an epithet for a foreign god of fertility, probably Adonis, in whose honor saplings were planted.
  2. 17:12 Many peoples: the hordes that accompanied the invading Assyrians, whom God repels just as he vanquished the primeval waters of chaos; see notes on Jb 3:8; 7:12; Ps 89:11.