Isaiah 17:7

7 In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17:7 in Other Translations

KJV
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
ESV
7 In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.
NLT
7 Then at last the people will look to their Creator and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
MSG
7 Yes, the Day is coming when people will notice The One Who Made Them, take a long hard look at The Holy of Israel.
CSB
7 On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17:7 In-Context

5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms— as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
7 In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah polesand the incense altars their fingers have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.

Cross References 4

  • 1. S Isaiah 2:11
  • 2. S Isaiah 9:13; S Isaiah 10:20
  • 3. S Psalms 95:6
  • 4. S Isaiah 12:6; Micah 7:7
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