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 47:7

47:7 You said,

‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ ⁴ 

You did not think about these things; ⁵ 

you did not consider how it would turn out. ⁶ 

Isaiah 57:11

57:11 Whom are you worried about?

Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully

and not remember me

or think about me? ⁷ 

Because I have been silent for so long, ⁸ 

you are not afraid of me. ⁹ 

[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.

[47:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “Forever I [will be] permanent queen”; NIV “the eternal queen”; CEV “queen forever.”

[47:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “you did not set these things upon your heart [or “mind”].”

[47:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “you did not remember its outcome”; NAB “you disregarded their outcome.”

[57:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”

[57:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”

[57:11]  ⁹ sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.