以赛亚书 30:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

所以這罪孽對於你們，必像一道有了裂縫，且凸了出來，快要倒塌的高牆，在頃刻之間，就突然倒塌。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
故 此 ， 这 罪 孽 在 你 们 身 上 ， 好 像 将 要 破 裂 凸 出 来 的 高 墙 ， 顷 刻 之 间 忽 然 坍 塌 ；

Contextual Overview

⁸ Now write this on a sign for the people, write this on a scroll, so that for the days to come this will be a witness forever. ⁹ These people are like children who lie and refuse to obey; they refuse to listen to the Lord 's teachings. ¹⁰ They tell the seers, "Don't see any more visions!" They say to the prophets, "Don't tell us the truth! Say things that will make us feel good; see only good things for us. ¹¹ Stop blocking our path. Get out of our way. Stop telling us about God, the Holy One of Israel." ¹² So this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "You people have refused to accept this message and have depended on cruelty and lies to help you. ¹³ You are guilty of these things. So you will be like a high wall with cracks in it that falls suddenly and breaks into small pieces. ¹⁴ You will be like a clay jar that breaks, smashed into many pieces. Those pieces will be too small to take coals from the fire or to get water from a well." ¹⁵ This is what the Lord God , the Holy One of Israel, says: "If you come back to me and trust me, you will be saved. If you will be calm and trust me, you will be strong." But you don't want to do that. ¹⁶ You say, "No, we need horses to run away on." So you will run away on horses. You say, "We will ride away on fast horses." So those who chase you will be fast. ¹⁷ One enemy will make threats, and a thousand of your men will run away. Five enemies will make threats, and all of you will run from them. You will be left alone like a flagpole on a hilltop, like a banner on a hill.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as a breach: 1 Kings 20:30, Psalms 62:3, Ezekiel 13:10-15, Matthew 7:27, Luke 6:49

cometh: Isaiah 29:5, Job 36:18, Psalms 73:19, Psalms 73:20, Proverbs 29:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:35 - the things Judges 10:8 - that year Judges 21:15 - a breach 2 Chronicles 10:15 - the king Job 34:20 - a moment Psalms 64:7 - suddenly Proverbs 6:15 - shall his Ecclesiastes 8:13 - neither Ecclesiastes 9:12 - the sons Isaiah 1:28 - they that Isaiah 9:14 - in one day Isaiah 31:2 - will bring Jeremiah 6:26 - for the Jeremiah 30:15 - thy sorrow Ezekiel 13:15 - The wall 1 Thessalonians 5:3 - then 2 Peter 2:3 - whose

Cross-References

Genesis 30:24
and she named him Joseph. Rachel said, "I wish the Lord would give me another son."

Genesis 30:25
After the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Now let me go to my own home and country.

Genesis 35:26
And he had two sons by Leah's slave girl Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These are Jacob's sons who were born in Northwest Mesopotamia.

Genesis 46:17
Asher's sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister was Serah. Beriah's sons were Heber and Malkiel.

Genesis 49:20
"Asher's land will grow much good food; he will grow food fit for a king.

Proverbs 31:28
Her children speak well of her. Her husband also praises her,

Song of Solomon 6:9
but there is only one like my dove, my perfect one. She is her mother's only daughter, the brightest of the one who gave her birth. The young women saw her and called her happy; the queens and the slave women also praised her.

Luke 1:48
because he has shown his concern for his humble servant girl. From now on, all people will say that I am blessed,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,.... Or, "as a falling breach" m; contempt of the word of God, and trusting in wickedness, rejecting the counsel of God, and placing confidence in the creature, these would be the cause of ruin; which ruin is signified by the breach of a falling wall, or by a breach in a wall, by reason of which it is in danger of falling, and is just ready to fall:

swelling out in a high wall; like a wall that bellies out and bulges, and which, when it once begins to do, suddenly falls; and the higher it is, it comes with more force, and the greater is the fall:

whose breaking cometh suddenly, at an instant; and so it is suggested, should be the ruin of this people; the high towering confidence they had in Egypt would fall with its own weight, and they with it, and be broken to pieces in a moment; and which is further illustrated by another simile.

m 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".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore this iniquity - That is, this refusing to trust in Yahweh, and this intention to seek the alliance of Egypt. The general sense of the figure here is, that their depending on Egypt would involve them ultimately in complete and awful ruin - ruin that should come upon them as suddenly as when a wall that had been long swelling out gives way.

As a breach ready to fall - Like a breaking forth, or a bursting in a wall.

Swelling out in a high wall - That is, where the foundation is not firm, and where one part of the wall sinks, and it inclines to one side until it suddenly bursts forth. A similar figure is used by the Psalmist Psalms 62:3 :

Ye shall be slain all of you

As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Whose breaking cometh suddenly - Though it has been long leaning and swelling, yet the actual bursting forth would be in an instant. So would it be with the destruction that would come upon the Jews. Though by their sins they had been long preparing for it, yet it would come upon them by a sudden and tremendous crash. So it will be with all sinners. Destruction may seem to be long delayed - as a wall may be long inclining, and may seem to prepare imperceptibly to fall; but in due time it will come suddenly upon them, when too late to obtain relief.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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 mingled together, and dried in the sun, and then used: but the least rain dissolves them." Sir John Chardin's MS. remark on this place of Isaiah is very apposite: Murs en Asie etant faits de terre se fendent ainsi par milieu et de haut en bas. "The walls in Asia being made of earth often cleave from top to bottom." This shouts clearly how obvious and expressive the image is. The psalmist has in the same manner made use of it, to express sudden and utter destruction: -

"Ye shall be slain all of you;

Ye shall be like an inclining wall, like a shattered fence."

Psalms 62:4.