Isaiah 17:4

17:4 “At that time ¹ 

Jacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished, ² 

and he will become skin and bones. ³ 

Isaiah 17:9

17:9 At that time ⁴  their fortified cities will be

like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, ⁵ 

which they abandoned because of the Israelites;

there will be desolation.

[17:4]  ¹ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[17:4]  ² tn Heb “will be tiny.”

[17:4]  ³ tn Heb “and the fatness of his flesh will be made lean.”

[17:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).

[17:9]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “like the abandonment of the wooded height and the top one.” The following relative clause appears to allude back to the Israelite conquest of the land, so it seems preferable to emend הַחֹרֶשׁ וְהָאָמִיר (hakhoresh vÿha’amir, “the wooded height and the top one”) to חֹרֵשֵׁי הָאֱמֹרִי (khoreshe ha’emori, “[like the abandonment] of the wooded heights of the Amorites”).