What Does Isaiah 17:10 Mean in the King James?
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Forgetting the source of deliverance does not stop your hands from planting; it changes what you plant.
THE MEANING
When you forget the One who delivers and the rock that is your stronghold, your efforts to make things grow continue. But what you plant comes from elsewhere: the verse shows lovely growth taking root from a foreign source.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that attractive growth can replace the source of deliverance and refuge.
THE ROOT
יִשְׁעֵךָ
yishʿekha
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
To deliver, bringing someone out of danger and into safety and spaciousness.
The word for salvation holds the movement of deliverance: being brought out of a constricted place. What is forgotten here is not merely a belief, but the source of that release.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
It names the rescue whose source the verse says has been forgotten.
moshia: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
It names the one who brings a person out, linking deliverance to its source.
מָעוֹז
maʿoz
GROWS FROM
עזז
ʿ-z-z
To be strong or mighty; the noun family includes strength and a stronghold or refuge.
The word rendered “strength” is maʿoz, also used for a stronghold or refuge. Joined to “rock,” it pictures strength as shelter to lean against, not simply force held within oneself.
ALSO GROWS
ʿoz: Strength or might
עֹז
It shows the force contained in the word family behind the strength named in the verse.
maʿoz: Stronghold or refuge
מָעוֹז
It reveals the sheltering sense in “the rock of thy strength.”
THE PATTERN
When the source of life and refuge is forgotten, effort continues but turns toward substitutes with a different source.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.THE THREAD
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.Isaiah’s “forgotten” and Deuteronomy’s “forgotten” carry the same Hebrew verb, שָׁכַח (shakhach), meaning “forget.” Deuteronomy places that forgetting directly beside the Rock, sharpening Isaiah’s pairing of the forgotten deliverer and the forgotten refuge.
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