Isaiah 17:9 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 17:9

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

BSB

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ASV

In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verses 9, 10.) On that day your fortified cities will be deserted like plowed fields and cornfields that have been deserted by the children of Israel. And it will be desolate, because you have forgotten your God, your Savior, and have not remembered your strong helper. LXX: On that day your cities will be deserted like the cities abandoned by the Amorites and the Hivites before the children of Israel. And they will be deserted because you have abandoned your God, your Savior, and have not remembered the Lord, your helper.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Left - Which they (the Canaanites) left or forsook because of (or for fear of) the children of Israel. And this was a fit example, to awaken the Israelites to a serious belief of this threatening, because God had inflicted the same judgment upon the Canaanites, for the same sins of which they were guilty.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

His strong cities - The cities of the united kingdoms of Damascus and Samaria. Be as a forsaken bough - There has been much difficulty in the interpretation of this passage. Lowth says, ‘No one has ever been able to make any tolerable sense of these words;’ and proposes himself the translation, In that day shall his strongly fenced cities become Like the desertion of the Hivites and the Amorites; Following in this the translation of the Septuagint, but doing violence to the Hebrew text.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בַּיּ֨וֹם	bai.Yom	in the day	H3117 →
הַה֜וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
יִהְי֣וּ׀	yih.Yu	they will be	H1961 →
עָרֵ֣י	'a.Rei	[the] cities of	H5892 →
מָעֻזּ֗וֹ	ma.'u.Zo	refuge his	H4581 →
כַּעֲזוּבַ֤ת	ka.'a.zu.Vat	like [the] forsaken [place] of	H5800 →
הַחֹ֙רֶשׁ֙	ha.Cho.resh	the forest	H2793 →
וְהָ֣אָמִ֔יר	ve.Ha.'a.Mir	and the tree-top	H534 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עָזְב֔וּ	'a.ze.Vu	they abandoned	H5800 →
מִפְּנֵ֖י	mi.pe.Nei	<from> because of	H6440 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וְהָיְתָ֖ה	ve.ha.ye.Tah	and it will be	H1961 →
שְׁמָמָֽה׃	she.ma.Mah	a desolation	H8077 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Micah 6:16
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you…
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:51
  “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
- Psalms 44:13
  You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Isaiah 25:8
  He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- Jeremiah 7:24
  Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- 1 Kings 16:25–33
  But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
Through
Isaiah 27:10
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
leads to
- Isaiah 17:2
  The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
- Isaiah 32:13–14
  and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- Micah 3:12
  Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

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