Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 17:11

"In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow." — Isaiah 17:11 (ASV)

In the day shalt thou make. —Better, you make, or, you fence, your plant.

The alliance between Syria and Ephraim is compared in the rapidity of its growth with the “gardens of Adonis.” All the “harvest heaps” from such a planting would end, not in the usual joy of harvest (Isaiah 9:3), but in “grief and incurable pain.”

There is no sufficient evidence for the marginal reading of the Authorized Version.