Isaiah 30:8

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁸Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.⁹These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD's instruction. ¹⁰They say to the seers, "No more visions," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us the truth. Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions. ¹¹Get out of the way; leave the pathway. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel." ¹²Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression, and relying on deceit, ¹³this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly-in an instant! ¹⁴It will break in pieces like a potter's jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern." ¹⁵For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: "By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence-but you were not willing." ¹⁶"No," you say, "we will flee on horses." Therefore you will flee! "We will ride swift horses," but your pursuers will be faster. ¹⁷A thousand will take flight at the threat of one, at the threat of five you will flee, until you are left alone like a lone pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

Bible Verse Review
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write: Isaiah 8:1, Deuteronomy 31:19, Deuteronomy 31:22, Job 19:23, Job 19:24, Jeremiah 36:2, Jeremiah 36:28-32, Jeremiah 51:60, Habakkuk 2:2

the time to come: Heb. the latter day, Isaiah 2:2, Numbers 24:14, Deuteronomy 4:30, Deuteronomy 31:29, Job 19:25, Jeremiah 23:20, Jeremiah 48:47, Ezekiel 38:16, Hosea 3:5, 1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Peter 3:3, Jude 1:18

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 6:9 - General Proverbs 2:15 - General Proverbs 7:3 - General Isaiah 6:9 - Go Isaiah 8:20 - it is Isaiah 33:14 - sinners Isaiah 34:16 - Seek Jeremiah 30:2 - General Jeremiah 32:10 - subscribed the evidence Ezekiel 2:10 - spread Ezekiel 24:2 - write Daniel 7:1 - he wrote Malachi 2:2 - ye will not hear Luke 1:63 - a Acts 4:17 - let Revelation 1:11 - What

Cross-References

Genesis 23:6
"Listen to us, sir. You are God's chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead."

Genesis 30:24
She named him Joseph, and said, "May the LORD add to me another son."

Genesis 30:25
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

Genesis 35:25
The sons of Rachel's maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

Genesis 46:24
The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

Genesis 49:21
Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

Exodus 9:28
Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer."

Deuteronomy 33:23
Concerning Naphtali he said: "Naphtali is abounding with favor, full of the blessing of the LORD; he shall take possession of the sea and the south."

1 Samuel 14:15
Terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.

Matthew 4:13
Leaving Nazareth, He went and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,.... Meaning their sins, their rebellion against God, their trust in an arm of flesh, and contempt of the divine word; or the prophecy of their destruction, for these things; and both may be meant; which the Lord orders to be written before their eyes, in some public place, as in the temple, upon a table, a table of wood covered with wax, on which they formerly wrote, and then hung it up against a wall, that it might be read by everyone; and he would have him also engross it in a book, that it might be kept for time to come: now what God would have thus written and engrossed, must be something considerable, and of consequence; and, as it may refer to the sins of this people, may denote the blackness and detestableness of them, as being what they had reason to be ashamed of, when thus set before them; and, as it may refer to their punishment, it may signify the certainty of it:

that it may be for the time to come, for ever and ever; and so continue to their eternal infamy, and for the justification of God in his proceedings against them, and be cautious unto others. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "for a testimony for ever", a witness for God, and against the Jews; and so the Targum,

"and it shall be in the day of judgment for a witness before me for ever.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now go - This is a direction to the prophet to make a permanent record of the character of the Jewish people. The fact to be recorded was, that they were rebellious Isaiah 30:9; the design for which the record was to be made was to show to future times that this had been the uniform character of the nation. The record was to be preserved that it might be a proof of the care of God toward the nation even in the midst of their long-continued and obstinate perverseness.

Write it before them - Before the Jews themselves, that they may see the record, and may have it constantly before them.

In a table - Or ON a table. The word לוח lûach denotes a tablet either of stone to engrave upon Deuteronomy 9:9; Exodus 31:18; or of wood 1 Kings 7:36. It is not improbable that this was to be exposed to public view in some conspicuous place near the temple.

And note it - Engrave it; that is, record it.

In a book - On parchment, or in the usual way of writing (see the note at Isaiah 8:1).

For the time to come - Hebrew as Margin, ‘The latter day.’ It was to be made in order that future ages might know what had been the character of that people, and what had been the patience and forbearance of God in regard to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 30:8. For ever and ever - "For a testimony for ever"] לעד leed. So the Syriac, Chaldee, Vulgate, and Septuagint, in MSS. Pachom. and I. D. II. εις μαρτυριον, which two words have been lost out of the other copies of the Septuagint.