Yǐsaìyàshū 17:10

10 Yīn nǐ wàngjì jiù nǐde shén , bù jìniàn nǐ nénglì de pánshí . suǒyǐ nǐ zāi shǎng jiā mĕi de shù yāng zǐ , chā shang yìyàng de zāi zǐ .

Yǐsaìyàshū 17:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 17:10

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation
Who had been the author of salvation to them many a time, in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in various instances since; and yet they had forgot his works of mercy and goodness, and had left his worship, and gone after idols; and this was the cause of their cities being forsaken, and becoming a desolation: and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength;
or strong Rock, who had supplied and supported them, protected and defended them: therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants;
or "plants of pleasant fruit" ^F19, or "plants of Naamanim"; and so Aben Ezra takes it to be the proper name of a plant in the Arabic language, and which he says is a plant that grows very quick; perhaps he means "Anemone", which is so called in that language ^F20, and is near to it in sound; though rather, not any particular plant is meant, but all sorts of pleasant plants, flowers, and fruit trees, with which the land of Israel abounded: and shall set it with strange slips;
with foreign ones, such as are brought from other countries, and are scarce and dear, and highly valued; and by "plants" and "slips" may be meant false and foreign doctrines, inculcating idolatry and superstition, which are pleasing to the flesh ^F21.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (Mynmen yejn) "plantas amaenorum [fructuum]", Piscator.
F20 <arabic> Alnaaman "Anemone", in Avicenna, l. 256. 1. "vel a colore sanguineo, vel quod ab illo adamaretur rege", Golius, col. 2409. Castel. col. 2346.
F21 So Vitringa.

Yǐsaìyàshū 17:10 In-Context

8 Tāmen bì bù yǎngwàng jìtán , jiù shì zìjǐ shǒu suǒ zhú de , yĕ bù chóng kàn zìjǐ zhítou suǒ zuò de , wúlùn shì mùǒu , huò rì xiàng .

9 Zaì nà rì tāmende jiāngù chéng , bì xiàng shùlín zhōng hé shāndǐng shang suǒ piĕ qì de dìfang , jiù shì cóng qián zaì Yǐsèliè rén miànqián beì rén piĕ qì de . zhèyàng , dì jiù huāngliáng le .

10 Yīn nǐ wàngjì jiù nǐde shén , bù jìniàn nǐ nénglì de pánshí . suǒyǐ nǐ zāi shǎng jiā mĕi de shù yāng zǐ , chā shang yìyàng de zāi zǐ .

11 Zāizhòng de rìzi , nǐ zhōuwéi juān shǎng líba , yòu dào zǎochen shǐ nǐ suǒ zhǒng de kāi huā . dàn zaì chóukǔ jíqí shāng tòng de rìzi , suǒ shōugē de , dōu fēi qù le .

12 Āi , duō mín hǒng nāng , hǎoxiàng hǎi làng Pēng hōng , liè bāng bēn téng , hǎoxiàng mĕng shuǐ tāo tāo .