Isaiah 17:10

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
forgotten	שָׁכַ֙חַתְּ֙ sha.Kha.chat	H7911	to mislay · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular
God	אֱלֹהֵ֣י 'e.lo.Hei	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct
salvation	יִשְׁעֵ֔ךְ yish.'Ekh	H3468	liberty · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
mindful	זָכָ֑רְתְּ za.Kha.ret	H2142	properly · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular
rock	וְצ֥וּר ve.Tzur	H6697	properly · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
strength	מָעֻזֵּ֖ךְ ma.'u.Zekh	H4581	a fortified place · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
plant	תִּטְּעִי֙ ti.te.'I	H5193	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular
pleasant	נַעֲמָנִ֔ים na.'a.ma.Nim	H5282	pleasantness (plural as concrete) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
plants	נִטְעֵ֣י nit.'Ei	H5194	a plant · noun, common masculine plural construct
set	תִּזְרָעֶֽנּוּ tiz.ra.'E.nu	H2232	to sow · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
strange	זָ֖ר zar	H2114	to turn aside (especially for lodging) · adjective, masculine singular absolute
slips	וּזְמֹ֥רַת u.ze.Mo.rat	H2156	a twig (as pruned) · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct

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Cross-references

Deuteronomy 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Psalms 106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Isaiah 26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Jeremiah 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Hosea 13:6-7 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Psalms 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:9-11

Here the prophet returns to foretel the woeful desolations that should be made in the land of Israel by the army of the Assyrians. 1. That the cities should be deserted. Even the strong cities, which should have protected the country, shall not be able to protect themselves: They shall be as a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch of an old tree, which has gone to decay, is forsaken of its leaves, and appears on the top of the tree, bare, and dry, and dead; so shall their strong cities look when the inhabitants have deserted them and the victorious army of the enemy pillaged and defaced them, Isa 17:9. They shall be as the cities (so it may be supplied) which the Canaanites left, the old in…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 17:10

forgotten . . . God of . . . salvation . . . rock-- (Deu 32:15, Deu 32:18). plants--rather, "nursery grounds," "pleasure-grounds" [MAURER]. set in--rather, "set them," the pleasure-grounds. strange slips--cuttings of plants from far, and therefore valuable.

John Gill on Isaiah 17:10

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,.... Who had been the author of salvation to them many a time, in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in various instances since; and yet they had forgot his works of mercy and goodness, and had left his worship, and gone after idols; and this was the cause of their cities being forsaken, and becoming a desolation: and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; or strong Rock, who had supplied and supported them, protected and defended them: therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants; or "plants of pleasant fruit" (s), or "plants of Naamanim"; and so Aben Ezra takes it to be the proper name of a plant in the Arabic language, and which he…

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John Calvin on Isaiah 17:10

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation. He shews the reason why the Lord exercises such severity against the Ten Tribes, that they may not complain of being unjustly afflicted or too harshly treated. The sum of what is stated is, that all those evils come to them because they have wickedly despised God. It was excessively base and altogether inexcusable ingratitude, after having received so many favors, to prostitute their hopes to heathen nations and to idols, as if they had never in any respect experienced the love of God. Indeed, no unbelievers, when they are called to account, will vindicate themselves from the charge of offering an insult to God by wandering after creature…

The Church Fathers

(Verse 10.) Because you have forgotten your God and have not remembered your powerful helper. These things, he says, you will endure, O Israel, because you have forsaken your God, who has freed you from Egypt, who has subjected enemy nations to you; and you have not remembered your helper. Therefore you will plant a faithful plantation, and you will sow a foreign seed. This should be read more closely and ironically. For, he says, you have forgotten your God and Savior, and you have not remembered your strong helper: should you therefore plant a faithful plantation, and not rather sow a foreign seed, which the enemy will snatch away? Or certainly like this: you have founded my sons, who are born from the stock of my people, in the land, in order to make them foreign and wicked.
— Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

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Dictionary and topics

Rock — (Heb. tsur), employed as a symbol of God in the Old Testament (1 Sam. 2:2; 2 Sam. 22:3; Isa. 17:10; Ps. 28:1; 31:2, 3; 89:26; 95:1); also in the New Testament (Matt. 16:18; Rom. 9:33; 1 Cor. 10:4).…
Backsliders · .Syrians — .Syrians
Forgetting God · Punishment of — Punishment of
Godlessness · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Harvest, The · Failure of: A punishment for sin — Failure of: A punishment for sin
Israel, Prophecies Concerning · .Of — .Of
Rock · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE
Rocks · Illustrative of: God as the strength of his people — Illustrative of: God as the strength of his people

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 17:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:9-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 17:10

John Gill on Isaiah 17:10

John Calvin on Isaiah 17:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 17:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:9-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 17:10

John Gill on Isaiah 17:10

John Calvin on Isaiah 17:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 17:9-11

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 17:10

Rashi on Isaiah 17:10