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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 30:8-17

Here, I. The preface is very awful. The prophet must not only preach this, but he must write it (Isa. 30:8), write it in a table, to be hung up and exposed to public view; he must carefully note it, not in loose papers which might be lost or torn, but in a book, to be preserved for posterity, in perpetuam rei memoriam?for a standing testimony against this wicked generation; let it remain not only to the next succeeding ages, but for ever and ever, while the world stands; and so it shall, for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:11

Get ye out of the way: turn aside out of the path ,.... These two expressions mean one and the same thing; either that the prophets would go out of their usual way of threatening ruin and destruction; or that they would go out of the way of the people, and not stand in it to hinder them pursuing their own lusts and pleasures; or that they would go out of the right way, as the Targum, which is God's way, and join with them; or, at least, connive at, and indulge them, in their ways: cause... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:12

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel ,.... The prophet introduces his message with the phrase they objected to: ministers of the word must not seek to please men, nor should they be deterred from the use of phrases, because disliked by natural men: as, in our days, men do not love to hear the name of Christ so often mentioned, or his Gospel, or the glorious truths of it; but the use of them should not be left off on that account, but rather they should be the more inculcated, as we... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:13

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall ,.... Or, "as a falling breach" F13 כפרץ נופל "sicut ruptura cadens", Montanus, Cocceius, De Dieu. Ben Melech observes, that a breach is after the building is fallen; for the breach does not fall, but it is said on account of the end of it, or what it is at last, as in Isa. xlvii. 2. "grind meal" or "flour". ; contempt of the word of God, and trusting in wickedness, rejecting the counsel of God, and placing... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:14

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel ,.... That is, their confidence in an arm of flesh, and they that place it there; and this either God shall do, or the enemy, and God by him; or rather it may he rendered impersonally, "it shall be broken"; and may refer to the wall to which the ruin of this people is compared, that that when it falls shall be broke to pieces, as a potter's vessel is when it falls upon a pavement, or is dashed against anything, or, struck with a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:15

For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel ,.... This is still repeated, though displeasing to the carnal Jews, who, notwithstanding their ill behaviour to the Lord, condescends to give them the best advice, as follows: in returning and rest shall ye be saved ; or "may be saved" F15 תושעון "servaremini", Piscator, Gataker. ; this is the right and the only way, namely, by "returning" from their evil ways, particularly their purpose of going to Egypt for help, and by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:12

In oppression "In obliquity" - בעקש beakesh , transposing the two last letters of בעשק beoshek , in oppression, which seems not to belong to this place: a very probable conjecture of Houbigant. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:13

Swelling out to a high wall "A swelling in a high wall" - It has been observed before, that the buildings of Asia generally consist of little better than what we call mud walls. "All the houses at Ispahan, "says Thevenot, Vol. II., p. 159, "are built of bricks made of clay and straw, and dried in the sun; and covered with a plaster made of a fine white stone. In other places in Persia the houses are built with nothing else but such bricks, made with tempered clay and chopped straw, well... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:14

He shall not spare "And spareth it not" - Five MSS. add the conjunction ו vau to the negative; ולא velo . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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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