إِشَعْيَاءَ 17:10

Smith Van Dyke Version

لانك نسيتي اله خلاصك ولم تذكري صخرة حصنك لذلك تغرسين اغراسا نزهة وتنصبين نصبة غربية.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou hast: Isaiah 51:13, Deuteronomy 6:12, Deuteronomy 8:11, Deuteronomy 8:14, Deuteronomy 8:19, Psalms 9:17, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 106:21, Jeremiah 2:32, Jeremiah 17:13, Hosea 2:13, Hosea 2:14, Hosea 4:6, Hosea 8:14, Hosea 13:6, Hosea 13:7

the God: Isaiah 12:2, 1 Chronicles 16:35, Psalms 65:5, Psalms 68:19, Psalms 68:20, Psalms 79:9, Psalms 85:4, Habakkuk 3:18

the rock: Isaiah 26:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:15, Psalms 18:2, Psalms 31:2

shalt thou: Isaiah 65:21, Isaiah 65:22, Leviticus 26:16, Leviticus 26:20, Deuteronomy 28:30, Deuteronomy 28:38-42, Jeremiah 12:13, Amos 5:11, Zephaniah 1:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:18 - the Rock Job 15:31 - for vanity Psalms 44:17 - yet Psalms 129:7 - he that bindeth Jeremiah 3:21 - and they have Ezekiel 23:35 - Because Hosea 2:9 - take Haggai 1:9 - Ye looked

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 says is a plant that grows very quick; perhaps he means "Anemone", which is so called in that language t, and is near to it in sound; though rather, not any particular plant is meant, but all sorts of pleasant plants, flowers, and fruit trees, with which the land of Israel abounded:

and shall set it with strange slips; with foreign ones, such as are brought from other countries, and are scarce and dear, and highly valued; and by "plants" and "slips" may be meant false and foreign doctrines, inculcating idolatry and superstition, which are pleasing to the flesh u.

s נטעי נעמנים "plantas amaenorum [fructuum]", Piscator. t Alnaaman "Anemone", in Avicenna, l. 256. 1. "vel a colore sanguineo, vel quod ab illo adamaretur rege", Golius, col. 2409. Castel. col. 2346. u So Vitringa.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because thou ... - Because the kingdom of Israel or Samaria had done it.

The God of thy salvation - The God in whom alone was salvation; or who alone could protect thee (compare Micah 7:7; Hosea 2:15).

The rock of thy strength - God. A rock of strength is a strongly fortified place; or a rock which an enemy could not successfully assail. High rocks were selected as a place of refuge from an invading foe (see the notes at Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 1:21). In allusion to this, God is often called “a Rock,” and a strong tower Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:18, Deuteronomy 32:30-31, Deuteronomy 32:37; 1Sa 2:2; 2 Samuel 22:2-3, 2 Samuel 22:32; Psalms 18:31, Psalms 18:46; Psalms 19:14; Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:1-2.

Shalt thou plant pleasant plants - Plants that are suited to produce pleasure or delight; that is, you shall cultivate your fields, and set them out with choice vines and plants in hope of a future harvest, but you shall be disappointed.

And shall set it with strange slips - The word ‘slips’ means the “cuttings” of the vine that are set in the ground to grow; or the shoot or sucker that is taken off and “set out,” or put in the earth to take root and grow, as is often done by farmers and gardeners. The word ‘strange’ here means “foreign,” those which are procured from a distance, and which are, therefore, esteemed valuable; plants selected with care. This does not mean, as Lowth supposes, strange and idolatrous worship, and the vicious practices connected with it; but it means that, though they should be at great pains and expense in cultivating their land, yet the enemy would come in and make it desolate.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 17:10. Strange slips - "Shoots from a foreign soil."] The pleasant plants, and shoots from a foreign soil, are allegorical expressions for strange and idolatrous worship; vicious and abominable practices connected with it; reliance on human aid, and on alliances entered into with the neighbouring nations, especially Egypt; to all which the Israelites were greatly addicted, and in their expectations from which they should be grievously disappointed.