Isaiah 30:12-14 NIV

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 30:12

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

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:8-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:8-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:8-18

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