Isaiah 17:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants, and set them with strange slips:

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, you will plant pleasant plants and set them with imported vines.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    So shalt thou (o Damascus) be desolate, because thou hast forgotte God yi Sauioure, & hast not called to remebraunce ye rock of thi stregth, Wherfore thou hast also set a fayre plate, & grafted a straunge braunch.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saluation, and hast not remembred the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set pleasant plantes, and shalt graffe strange vine branches:

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saluation, and hast not ben myndfull of thy strong rocke: therfore shalt thou set pleasaunt plantes, and shalt graffe the braunche of another mans vine.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
  • Isa 12:2 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation.
  • Isa 26:4 : 4 Trust in the LORD forever, for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
  • Isa 51:13 : 13 And you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and you fear continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
  • Ps 106:21 : 21 They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt;
  • Isa 65:21-22 : 21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
  • Jer 2:32 : 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
  • Jer 12:13 : 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and those that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
  • Hos 2:13-14 : 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD. 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  • Hos 8:14 : 14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.
  • Hos 13:6-7 : 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me. 7 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way I will observe them:
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
  • Hab 3:18 : 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
  • Zeph 1:13 : 13 Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • Deut 32:18 : 18 Of the Rock that begot you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who formed you.
  • Deut 32:31 : 31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
  • 1 Chr 16:35 : 35 And say, 'Save us, O God of our salvation, gather us together, and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.'
  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
  • Ps 18:2 : 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
  • Ps 31:2 : 2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver me quickly: be my strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
  • Ps 65:5 : 5 By awesome deeds in righteousness, You will answer us, O God of our salvation; You are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of those who are far off on the sea:
  • Ps 68:19-20 : 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
  • Ps 79:9 : 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us, and cleanse away our sins, for Your name's sake.
  • Ps 85:4 : 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease.
  • Ps 106:13 : 13 They soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
  • Lev 26:20 : 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
  • Deut 6:12 : 12 Then beware, lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
  • Deut 8:11 : 11 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
  • Deut 8:14 : 14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
  • Deut 8:19 : 19 And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
  • Deut 28:30 : 30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.
  • Deut 28:38-42 : 38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit. 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

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