Mazmur 106:21

106:21 They rejected ¹  the God who delivered them,

the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,

Yesaya 17:10

17:10 For you ignore ²  the God who rescues you;

you pay no attention to your strong protector. ³ 

So this is what happens:

You cultivate beautiful plants

and plant exotic vines. ⁴ 

Yesaya 57:11

57:11 Whom are you worried about?

Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully

and not remember me

or think about me? ⁵ 

Because I have been silent for so long, ⁶ 

you are not afraid of me. ⁷ 

[106:21]  ¹ tn Heb “forgot.”

[17:10]  ² tn Heb “you have forgotten” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[17:10]  ³ tn Heb “and the rocky cliff of your strength you do not remember.”

[17:10]  ⁴ 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.

[57:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”

[57:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”

[57:11]  ⁷ sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.