Isaiah 17:10

17:10 For you ignore ¹  the God who rescues you;

you pay no attention to your strong protector. ² 

So this is what happens:

You cultivate beautiful plants

and plant exotic vines. ³ 

Isaiah 32:6

32:6 For a fool speaks disgraceful things; ⁴ 

his mind plans out sinful deeds. ⁵ 

He commits godless deeds ⁶ 

and says misleading things about the Lord;

he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite ⁷ 

and gives the thirsty nothing to drink. ⁸ 

Isaiah 44:20

44:20 He feeds on ashes; ⁹ 

his deceived mind misleads him.

He cannot rescue himself,

nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’ ¹⁰ 

[17:10]  ¹ tn Heb “you have forgotten” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[17:10]  ² tn Heb “and the rocky cliff of your strength you do not remember.”

[17:10]  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.

[32:6]  ⁴ tn Or “foolishness,” in a moral-ethical sense. See 9:17.

[32:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his heart commits sin”; KJV, ASV “his heart will work iniquity”; NASB “inclines toward wickedness.”

[32:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “in order to do [or “so that he does”] what is godless [or “defiled”].”

[32:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “so that he leaves empty the appetite [or “desire”] of the hungry.”

[32:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the drink of the thirsty he causes to fail.”

[44:20]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps, “he eats on an ash heap.”

[44:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “Is it not a lie in my right hand?”