Text -- Isaiah 17:10 (NET)

17:10 For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 17:10

¹ tn Heb “you have forgotten” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “and the rocky cliff of your strength you do not remember.”

³ tn Heb “a vine, a strange one.” The substantival adjective זָר (zar) functions here as an appositional genitive. It could refer to a cultic plant of some type, associated with a pagan rite. But it is more likely that it refers to an exotic, or imported, type of vine, one that is foreign (i.e., “strange”) to Israel.