Isaiah 17:11

In the day thou shalt set out thy plants to make them grow, 1 and in the boker shalt thou bring thy zera to blossom; 1 but the katzir (harvest) shall be a heap 1 in the day of sickness and of incurable pain. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

In Context

10Because thou hast forgotten the G-d of thy salvation, 1 and hast not been mindful of the Tzur of thy Ma'oz; 1 therefore shalt thou plant delightful plants, 1 and shalt set them with zemorat zar (foreign vines). 1

12Oy to the multitude of amim rabbim, 1 which make an uproar like the roaring of the seas; 1 and to the uproar of nations, 1 that make a roar like the roar of mighty waters. 1

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Cross References

Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, 1 and sow amal (trouble), reap the same. 1

Isaiah 18:5For before katzir (harvest), when the bud is perfect, 1 and the boser (sour grape, ripening grape) is ripening in the flower, 1 He shall both cut off the zalzallim (shoots) with pruning hooks, 1 and take away and cut down the netishot (tendrils, branches). 1

Jeremiah 5:31The nevi'im prophesy falsely, 1 and the kohanim rule at their direction; 1 and My people love to have it this way; 1 but what will ye do in the end?

Hosea 9:1Rejoice not, O Yisroel, 1 for joy, as other people; 1 for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy G-d, 1 thou hast loved for hire upon every threshing floor. 1

Hosea 10:12Sow to yourselves in tzedakah, 1 reap in chesed; 1 break up your fallow ground; 1 for it is time to seek Hashem, 1 till He come and rain tzedek upon you. 1

Matthew 8:11And I say to you, that many from the mizrach (east) and the maarav (west) will come and will sit bimesibba (reclining at tish) with Avraham and Yitzchak and Ya'akov in the Malchut HaShomayim.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:10-12

The Doom of Syria and Israel. ( b. c. 712.) 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. 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: 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the… Read the whole commentary →

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