Discovery BoxIsaiah 17:10 
Context17:10 For you ignore 1 the God who rescues you;
you pay no attention to your strong protector. 2
So this is what happens:
You cultivate beautiful plants
and plant exotic vines. 3
Isaiah 60:21
Context60:21 All of your people will be godly; 4
they will possess the land permanently.
I will plant them like a shoot;
they will be the product of my labor,
through whom I reveal my splendor. 5
1 tn Heb “you have forgotten” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “and the rocky cliff of your strength you do not remember.”
3 tn Heb “a vine, a strange one.” The substantival adjective זָר (zar) functions here as an appositional genitive. It could refer to a cultic plant of some type, associated with a pagan rite. But it is more likely that it refers to an exotic, or imported, type of vine, one that is foreign (i.e., “strange”) to Israel.
4 tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”
5 tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”
