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10 You have forgotten the God who saves you.
    You have not remembered that God is your place of safety.
You plant the finest grapevines.
    You plant grapevines from faraway places.
11 You will plant your grapevines one day and try to make them grow.
    The next day they will begin to grow.
But at harvest time everything will be dead.
    A sickness will kill all the plants.

12 Listen to the many people!
    They are crying loud like the noise from the sea.
Listen to the noise!
    The crying is like the crashing of great waves.

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

12 Woe to the many nations that rage(K)
    they rage like the raging sea!(L)
Woe to the peoples who roar(M)
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!(N)

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