Isaiah 17:11

Isaiah 17:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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 International Version (NIV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)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 King James Version (NKJV)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.

Context of Isaiah 17:11

9At that time, Israel's strong cities will be empty. People will run away from those cities, as the Amorites ran away from the hills when the Israelites attacked them. Israel's strong cities will become heaps of stones. 10That will happen because you have forgotten the God who rescues you. He is the Rock where you can safely hide, but you have turned away from him. Instead, you plant the best plants and vines in your gardens. You buy them from foreign countries for a lot of money. You take care of them so that they grow quickly. They may even make flowers on the same morning that you plant them! But you will never have any fruit from them. You will only get trouble and pain that will never go away. 12It will be very bad for the armies of other nations! They are making a noise like the sea in a storm! They are as loud as powerful waves! 13But it does not matter how much noise they make. Those people may roar like powerful waves, but the Lord will shout at them to stop. Then they will run far away! They will run like the wind as it blows chaff across the hills. It will be like a strong storm that carries away dead weeds!

Isaiah 17:11 word by word

בְּי֤וֹם נִטְעֵךְ֙ תְּשַׂגְשֵׂ֔גִי וּבַבֹּ֖קֶר זַרְעֵ֣ךְ תַּפְרִ֑יחִי נֵ֥ד קָצִ֛יר בְּי֥וֹם נַחֲלָ֖ה וּכְאֵ֥ב אָנֽוּשׁ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• In the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• shalt thou make thy plantנֶ֫טַעneţa‛ · plantationH5194
• to growשׂוּגώûg · to growH7735
• and in the morningבֹּ֫קֶרbôqer · morningH1242
• shalt thou make thy seedזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seedH2233
• to flourishפָּרַחpârach · to sproutH6524
• the harvestקָצִירqâtsîyr · harvestH7105
• a heapנֵדnêd · heapH5067
• of griefחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: grievedH2470
• and of desperateאָנַשׁ'ânash · be incurableH605
• sorrowכְּאֵבke'êb · painH3511

Cross-references for Isaiah 17:11

• Isaiah 18:5Then, when the grapes on the vines are nearly ready for harvest, the Lord will cut them off! He will use his knife to cut off the branches.
• Job 4:8I will tell you what I have seen. Trouble comes to people who do wicked things. They receive the punishment that they deserve.
• Jeremiah 5:31The prophets speak messages that are not true. The priests make their own rules for people to obey. And my people love to live like this! But when all this comes to an end, my people will be helpless!’
• Hosea 8:7Like a farmer, Israel's people have planted the wind. So their harvest will be a strong storm! The crops that grow in their fields will not have any grain. So they will not be able to make flour for bread. Even if the crops do make some grain, foreign people will take it for themselves.
• Hosea 9:1People of Israel, do not shout with joy, as the people of other nations do at their festivals. You have not been faithful to me, your God. Like a prostitute, you sell yourselves to foreign gods that you worship on the threshing floors.
• Hosea 10:12Be like a farmer who plants good seed. Plant things that are good and right. Then your harvest will be faithful love. Plough the hard ground and prepare it for the Lord to bless you. It is time for you to turn back to the Lord. Then he will bless you with good things, like rain that falls on the ground!
• Joel 1:5Wake up, you who have drunk too much wine! Cry, all people who drink wine! Cry because you will have no new wine. Someone has taken it away from you.
• Galatians 6:7Nobody can hide the things that he does from God. Do not think a false thought like that! It is like a farmer who plants seeds in his field. The same kind of crops will grow as the seeds which he plants. That will be his harvest.
• Isaiah 65:13So the Almighty Lord says this: ‘Look! My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Look! My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Look! My servants will be happy, but you will be ashamed.
• Matthew 8:11I tell you, many people will come from all over the world to take their place in the kingdom of heaven. There they will sit down to eat with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
• Romans 2:5But you refuse to change the way that you live. You are not sorry about the wrong things that you have done. As a result, you cause God to become even angrier with you. So he will punish you even more on the day when he will judge everyone. On that day, he will show how angry he is against people who do bad things. Everyone will know that he judges people in a right way.

Commentaries on Isaiah 17:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11In the day … - Thou shalt cultivate it assiduously and constantly. Thou shalt be at special pains that it may be watered and pruned, in order that it may produce abundantly. And in the morning - With early care and attention - denoting the pains that would be bestowed on the young plant. The harvest shall be a heap - The margin reads this, the harvest shall be removed in the day of inheritance, rendering it as if the word נד nêd usually meaning a heap…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-11The vision shifts from Damascus (Isaiah 17:1–3) to Israel's northern kingdom. Damascus and Israel were allies against Judah, but Assyria later destroyed both.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. In the day ... thy plant--rather, "In the day of thy planting" [Horsley]. shalt ... make ... grow--Maurer translates, "Thou didst fence it," namely, the pleasure-ground. The parallel clause, "Make ... flourish," favors English Version. As soon as thou plantest, it grows. in the morning--that is, immediately after; so in Psa 90:14, the Hebrew, "in the morning," is translated "early." but ... shall be a heap--rather, "but (promising as was the prospect)…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 17:11

• Backsliders
• Church
• Famine
• Forgetting God
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Rebuke
• Ruinous
• Rushing
• Despair
• Evil
• Ezekiel
• Grief; Grieve
• Harvest
• Heap
• Isaiah

Commentaries on Isaiah 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings