Devine Scripture

Isaiah 17:9

Isaiah chapter 17 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.8And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

v.9This passage

v.10For 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 7:16

    For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.

  • Micah 5:11

    and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strongholds.

  • Amos 7:9

    and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

  • Micah 7:13

    Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Isaiah 6:11

    Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

  • Isaiah 9:9

    And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart,