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Isaiah 17:7-9
New English Translation
Isaiah 17:7-9
New English Translation
7 At that time[a] men will trust in their Creator;[b]
they will depend on[c] the Holy One of Israel.[d]
8 They will no longer trust in[e] the altars their hands made,
or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.[f]
9 At that time[g] their fortified cities will be
like the abandoned summits of the Amorites,[h]
which they abandoned because of the Israelites;
there will be desolation.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:7 tn Heb “in that day” (so ASV, NASB, NIV); KJV “At that day.”
- Isaiah 17:7 tn Heb “man will gaze toward his maker.”
- Isaiah 17:7 tn Heb “his eyes will look toward.”
- Isaiah 17:7 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
- Isaiah 17:8 tn Heb “he will not gaze toward.”
- Isaiah 17:8 tn Heb “and that which his fingers made he will not see, the Asherah poles and the incense altars.”
- Isaiah 17:9 tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).
- Isaiah 17:9 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “like the abandonment of the wooded height and the top one.” The following relative clause appears to allude back to the Israelite conquest of the land, so it seems preferable to emend הַחֹרֶשׁ וְהָאָמִיר (hakhoresh vehaʾamir, “the wooded height and the top one”) to חֹרֵשֵׁי הָאֱמֹרִי (khoreshe haʾemori, “[like the abandonment] of the wooded heights of the Amorites”).
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