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Text -- Isaiah 17:6-14 (NET)
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17:6 There will be some left behind , like when an olive tree is beaten – two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top , four or five on its fruitful branches ,” says the Lord God of Israel .
17:7 At that time men will trust in their creator ; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel .
17:8 They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made , or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made .
17:9 At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites ; there will be desolation .
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 .
17:11 The day you begin cultivating , you do what you can to make it grow ; the morning you begin planting , you do what you can to make it sprout . Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain .
17:12 The many nations massing together are as good as dead , those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves . The people making such an uproar are as good as dead, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves .
17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves , when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land , driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills , or like dead thistles before a strong gale .
17:14 In the evening there is sudden terror ; by morning they vanish . This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Isaiah |
Israel |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
Chaff |
Church |
Backsliders |
Rock |
God |
AGRICULTURE |
Forgetting God |
Olive |
Idolatry |
WHIRLWIND |
VINE |
Mankind |
SUN-WORSHIP |
THORN IN THE FLESH |
UNCHANGEABLE; UNCHANGEABLENESS |
WIND |
SLIP |
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NET Notes: Isa 17:8 Heb “and that which his fingers made he will not see, the Asherah poles and the incense altars.”
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NET Notes: Isa 17:9 The Hebrew text reads literally, “like the abandonment of the wooded height and the top one.” The following relative clause appears to all...
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NET Notes: Isa 17:10 Heb “a vine, a strange one.” The substantival adjective זָר (zar) functions here as an appositional genitive. It could r...
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NET Notes: Isa 17:11 The Hebrew text has, “a heap of harvest.” However, better sense is achieved if נֵד (ned, “heap”) is emended ...
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