In that day shall the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of boughs and branches, which [a]they did forsake, because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation.

10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not remembered the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set pleasant plants, and shalt graft strange [b]vine branches.

11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be gone in the day [c]of possession, and there shall be desperate sorrow.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:9 As the Canaanites left their cities when God did place the Israelites there, so the cities of Israel shall no more be able to defend their inhabitants than bushes, when God shall send the enemy to plague them.
  2. Isaiah 17:10 Which are excellent, and brought out of other countries.
  3. Isaiah 17:11 As the Lord threateneth the wicked in his Law, Lev. 26:16.

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)

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