Isaiah 17:11

on the day you plant and hedge and cultivate. Soon your seed will grow, 1 but the harvest will fail on a day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 1

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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

10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have ignored the rock of your strength. 1 So you plant pleasant plants, and set out vine branches received from a stranger, 1

12Woe! The uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas, 1 and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 1

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Cross References

Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity 1 and sow trouble reap it. 1

Isaiah 18:5Before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower is ripening into a grape, 1 he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches. 1

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy with deceit, and the priests rule with their own power. 1 My people love it this way, but what will happen in the end?'”

Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, Israel, 1 with joy like the other peoples. 1 For you have been unfaithful, 1 forsaking your God. 1 You love to pay the wages a prostitute requires 1 on all the threshing floors. 1

Hosea 10:12Sow righteousness for yourselves, 1 and reap the fruit of covenant faithfulness. 1 Break up your unplowed ground, 1 for it is time to seek Yahweh, 1 until he comes and rains righteousness on you. 1

Matthew 8:11I tell you, many will come from the east and the west, and they will recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

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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