Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:20
Though the Lord "Though Jehovah" - For אדני Adonai , sixteen MSS. and three editions have יהוה Yehovah , many of De Rossi's have the same reading; all my own have יהוה Yehovah . read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:8-17
A RENEWAL OF THREATENING . The denunciation of the Egyptian alliance had been made viva voce , in the courts of the temple or in some other place of public resort. As he ended, Isaiah received a Divine intimation that the prophecy was to be put on record, doubly, upon a tablet and in a book. At the same time, the " rebelliousness " of the people was further pointed out, and fresh threats (verses 13, 14, and 17) were uttered against them. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:8-18
A testimony forever. The prophet pauses. Perhaps he hears an inner voice bidding him to write down a few words, such as the last significant Rahab . As in Isaiah 8:1 , the inscription is to be on a large tablet, set up in a conspicuous place, so that he who runs may read. Then he is to inscribe the prophecy more fully on a scroll. Litera scripta manet . The oracle, the oral utterance, transferred to parchment, becomes a κτῆμα εἰς ἀεί , a "possession forever." The perpetuity... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:8-18
Aspects of sin. This severe denunciation by the prophet of the sins of the Jews may remind us of some of the darker and sadder aspects of sin itself. I. THE PERMANENCY OF ITS RECORD . Isaiah was to record the guilt of "the rebellious children" in a book, that it might be there inscribed " for the time to come forever and ever." And in the sacred volume there stand written, to be read for all time, the accusations which the Lord brought against Israel; the record of their... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:15
For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel. As the irreligious party wished to hear no more of "the Holy One of Israel" ( Isaiah 30:11 ), Isaiah takes care to keep him constantly before their minds (comp. Isaiah 31:1 ). In returning and rest shall ye be saved ; rather, should ye be saved , or might ye be saved . The conditions are put forward, not as now capable of being realized, but as those which might have been realized at an earlier date. The "returning" spoken of... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:15
Sources of strength. "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." Because, "if God be for us, who can be against us?" When the winds are in our favor, all we have to do is to set our sails. When the tides are with us, we need not fret concerning the issues of the voyage. God is on the side of the just man, the true man, the pure man. The disciples of his Son are not likely to lose his favor and reward. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:15
Quiet strength. These beautiful words suggest— I. THE FIRST DUTY OF THE ERRING . Judah had forsaken God to find a refuge in another power; the first duty of the nation, therefore, was "to return" unto the Lord, and to find its rest and its salvation in him. This is now and ever the immediate duty of all wanderers from God; both of those who have never been reconciled to him through Jesus Christ, and of those who, like the Jews on this occasion, have temporarily forsaken his... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:15
Quietness and confidence. These terms are related. Quietness is the result of confidence. Confidence is the secret of quietness. The quietness thought of by the prophet was the abandonment of the disquieting and distracting search for earthly aids, as in the case of seeking help from Egypt; the confidence he commends is that patient waiting on God and waiting for God, which are the necessary expressions of our faith in him. I. A GREAT ATTAINMENT . So great, so nearly impossible for... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:16
Ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses ; rather, we will fly upon horses . The nobles had perhaps a manly eagerness to mount the Egyptian war-horses, and rush upon the enemy at full speed, in the hope of discomfiting them. Isaiah warns them that they will not really fig on the enemy, but flee before him. We will ride upon the swift . "The swift" (kal) seems to be a mere variant for "horse," the parallelism being, as so frequently, "synonymous." Therefore shall they that pursue... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:19
For the people shall dwell in Zion "When a holy people shall dwell in Sion" - Λαος ἁγιος , Septuagint; קדוש עם am kadosh . The word dro קדוש kadosh , lost out of the text, but happily supplied by the Septuagint, clears up the sense, otherwise extremely obscure. When the rest of the cities of the land were taken by the king of Assyria, Zion was preserved, and all that were in it. Thou shalt weep no more "Thou shalt implore him with weeping" - The negative particle לא lo is... read more