In that day [a]their strong cities will be like [b]forsaken places in the forest,
Or like [c]branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And [d]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 slips of a strange god.
11 In 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)be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:9 I.e. man’s
  2. Isaiah 17:9 Gr reads the deserted places of the Amorites and the Hivites which they abandoned
  3. Isaiah 17:9 Or the treetop
  4. Isaiah 17:9 Lit it