Isaiah 17:7-9

17:7 At that time ¹  men will trust in their creator; ² 

they will depend on ³  the Holy One of Israel. ⁴ 

17:8 They will no longer trust in ⁵  the altars their hands made,

or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made. ⁶ 

17:9 At that time ⁷  their fortified cities will be

like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, ⁸ 

which they abandoned because of the Israelites;

there will be desolation.

[17:7]  ¹ tn Heb “in that day” (so ASV, NASB, NIV); KJV “At that day.”

[17:7]  ² tn Heb “man will gaze toward his maker.”

[17:7]  ³ tn Heb “his eyes will look toward.”

[17:7]  ⁴ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[17:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “he will not gaze toward.”

[17:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and that which his fingers made he will not see, the Asherah poles and the incense altars.”

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

[17:9]  ¹⁰ 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”).