Isaiah 17:11
New International Version
though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.

New Living Translation
They may sprout on the day you set them out; yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them, but you will never pick any grapes from them. Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.

English Standard Version
though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.

Berean Standard Bible
though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

New American Standard Bible
On the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will flee On a day of illness and incurable pain.

NASB 1995
In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

NASB 1977
In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Legacy Standard Bible
In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you cause your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Amplified Bible
In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; Yet [promising as it is] the harvest will be a heap [of ruins that passes away] In the day of sickness and incurable pain.

Christian Standard Bible
On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

American Standard Version
In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the day that you will plant it, it will put forth blossoms, and at dawn you shall sprout your seed like a pole slip of a gathered vintage in the grievous day, and like the sorrow of man

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In the day wherein thou shalt plant thou shalt be deceived; but if thou sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein thou shalt obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, thou shalt obtain an inheritance for thy sons.

Contemporary English Version
The plants may sprout and blossom that very same morning, but it will do you no good, because you will suffer endless agony.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.

English Revised Version
In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom: but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
On the day you plant, you will make it grow. On the morning you set out the seedling, you will make it sprout. But the harvest will become a [rotting] pile on a day of grief and incurable pain.

Good News Translation
But even if they sprouted and blossomed the very morning you planted them, there would still be no harvest. There would be only trouble and incurable pain.

International Standard Version
at the time that you plant them, carefully making them grow, the very morning you make your seed to sprout, your harvest will be ruined in a time of grief and unbearable pain."

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow, And in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom-- A heap of boughs in the day of grief And of desperate pain.

Literal Standard Version
You cause your plant to become great in the day, | And make your seed to flourish in the morning, | The harvest [is] a heap in a day of overflowing, | And of mortal pain.

Majority Standard Bible
though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

New American Bible
Though you make them grow the day you plant them and make them blossom the morning you set them out, The harvest shall disappear on a day of sickness and incurable pain.

NET Bible
The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

New Revised Standard Version
though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow; yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.

New Heart English Bible
In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Young's Literal Translation
In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap is the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.

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Context
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— 11though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout— yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain. 12Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.…

Cross References
Leviticus 26:20
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:39
You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Psalm 90:6
in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Isaiah 17:5
as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 18:5
For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the harvest

Isaiah 18:5,6
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches…

Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Isaiah 65:13,14
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: …

Matthew 8:11,12
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven…

Romans 2:5,8,9
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; …

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Isaiah 17
1. Syria and Israel are threatened
6. A remnant shall forsake idolatry
9. The rest shall be plagued for their impiety
12. The woe of Israel's enemies














(11) In the day shalt thou make.--Better, thou makest, or, thou fencest, thy plant. The alliance between Syria and Ephraim is compared in the rapidity of its growth with the "gardens of Adonis." All the "harvest heaps" from such a planting would end, not in the wonted joy of harvest (Isaiah 9:3), but in "grief and incurable pain" There is no sufficient evidence for the marginal reading of the Authorised version.

Verse 11. - In the day; or, in a day (Kay). Shalt thou make; rather, thou makest. Each new slip that is planted is forced to take root and grow and flourish at once; the next morning it is expected to have formed its seed and reached perfection. So the harvest is hurried on; but when it is reached, the day of visitation has arrived - a day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
though on the day
בְּי֤וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

you plant
נִטְעֵךְ֙ (niṭ·‘êḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5194: A plant, a plantation, a planting

you make them grow,
תְּשַׂגְשֵׂ֔גִי (tə·śaḡ·śê·ḡî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 7735: Make to grow

and on that morning
וּבַבֹּ֖קֶר (ū·ḇab·bō·qer)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning

you help your seed
זַרְעֵ֣ךְ (zar·‘êḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

sprout—
תַּפְרִ֑יחִי (tap̄·rî·ḥî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 6524: To break forth as a, bud, bloom, to spread, to fly, to flourish

yet the harvest
קָצִ֛יר (qā·ṣîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7105: Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb

will vanish
נֵ֥ד (nêḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5067: A mound, wave

on the day
בְּי֥וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

of disease
נַחֲלָ֖ה (na·ḥă·lāh)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 2470: To be weak or sick

and incurable
אָנֽוּשׁ׃ (’ā·nūš)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 605: To be frail, feeble, melancholy

pain.
וּכְאֵ֥ב (ū·ḵə·’êḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3511: Suffering, adversity


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