ISA 17:9 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἔσονται αἱ πόλεις σου ἐγκαταλελειμμέναι, ὃν τρόπον κατέλιπον οἱ Ἀμοῤῥαῖοι καὶ οἱ Εὐαῖοι ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν νἱῶν Ἰσραήλ· καὶ ἔσονται ἔρημοι,
(Taʸ haʸmera ekeinaʸ esontai hai poleis sou egkataleleimmenai, hon tropon katelipon hoi Amoɽɽaioi kai hoi Euaioi apo prosōpou tōn nhiōn Israaʸl; kai esontai eraʸmoi, )

BrTr In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evæans deserted theirs, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.

ULT On that day his strong cities will be like the abandoned forests and summits which were forsaken because of the faces of the sons of Israel. And it will be a desolation.

UST The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people groups abandoned when the Israelites attacked them long ago. No people will live there.

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

OEB That day will your cities deserted be
⇔ like the derelict cities of Hivite and Amorite.

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

WMBB (Same as above)

NET At that time their fortified cities will be
⇔ like the abandoned summits of the Amorites,
⇔ which they abandoned because of the Israelites;
⇔ there will be desolation.

LSV In that day the cities of his strength are
As the forsaken thing of the forest,
And the branch that they have left,
Because of the sons of Israel,
It has also been a desolation.

FBV At that time their fortified cities will be like places left to be taken over by bushes and trees, just as they were previously abandoned when the Israelites invaded.[fn] The country will become completely desolate.

17:9 The reference is made to the time when the Israelites conquered the land. This is made explicit in the Septuagint which states that the cities will be abandoned just as the Amorites and the Hivites had done when confronted by the Israelites.

T4T The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the Canaan people-group abandoned) when the Israelis attacked them long ago.
⇔ No one will live there.

LEB On that day, its fortified cities[fn] will be like the abandonment of the wooded place and the summit,[fn] which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.

17:9 Literally “the cities of his fortress”

17:9 Perhaps this difficult phrase originally read “abandonment of the wooded heights of the Amorites”

BBE In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

Moff No Moff ISA book available

JPS In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.

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.

DRA In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the ploughs, and the corn that were left before the face of the children of Israel, and thou shalt be desolate.

YLT In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.

Drby In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.

RV In that day shall his 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.

Wbstr 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.

KJB-1769 ¶ 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.

KJB-1611 ¶ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an vppermost branch, which they left, because of the children of Israel: and there shalbe desolation.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken shrubbes & braunches, which they left because of the childre of Israel, and the lande shalbe desolate.
(In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken shrubbes and branches, which they left because of the children of Israel, and the land shall be desolate.)

Gnva In that day shall the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of boughes and branches, which they did forsake, because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation.

Cvdl At the same tyme shal their stronge cities be desolate, like as were once ye forsake plowes & corne, which they forsoke, for feare of ye children of Israel.
(At the same time shall their strong cities be desolate, like as were once ye/you_all forsake plowes and corn, which they forsook, for fear of ye/you_all children of Israel.)

Wycl In that dai the citees of strengthe therof schulen be forsakun as plowis, and cornes that weren forsakun of the face of the sones of Israel; and thou schalt be forsakun.
(In that day the cities of strengthe thereof should be forsaken as plowis, and cornes that were forsaken of the face of the sons of Israel; and thou/you shalt be forsaken.)

Luth Zu der Zeit werden die Städte ihrer Stärke sein wie ein verlassener Ast und Zweig, so verlassen ward vor den Kindern Israel; und werden wüste sein.
(Zu the/of_the time become the cities of_their/her Stärke his like a leaveer Ast and Zweig, so leave what/which before/in_front_of the Kindern Israel; and become wüste sein.)

ClVg In die illa erunt civitates fortitudinis ejus derelictæ sicut aratra, et segetes quæ derelictæ sunt a facie filiorum Israël; et eris deserta.[fn]
(In day that erunt civitates fortitudinis his derelictæ like aratra, and segetes which derelictæ are from face of_children Israel; and eris deserta. )

17.9 In die illa erunt. Irruentibus Assyriis, et vastantibus non solum Damascum, sed et terram decem tribuum. Aratra. ID. Amorrhæorum. Hoc contra decem tribus, quasi diceret: Sicut olim venientibus filiis Isræl, relictis aratris fugerunt Amorrhæi, sic modo decem tribus venientibus Assyriis.

17.9 In day that erunt. Irruentibus Assyriis, and vastantibus not/no solum Damascum, but and the_earth/land ten tribuum. Aratra. ID. Amorrhæorum. This on_the_contrary ten tribus, as_if diceret: Sicut olim venientibus childrens Isræl, relictis aratris fugerunt Amorrhæi, so modo ten tribus venientibus Assyriis.

Parallel ISA 17:9