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
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