Isaiah 30:9

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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this is: Isaiah 30:1, Isaiah 1:4, Deuteronomy 31:27-29, Deuteronomy 32:20, Jeremiah 44:2-17, Zephaniah 3:2, Matthew 23:31-33, Acts 7:51

lying: Isaiah 59:3, Isaiah 63:8, Jeremiah 9:3, Hosea 4:2, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

will not: 2 Chronicles 33:10, 2 Chronicles 36:15, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Proverbs 28:9, Jeremiah 7:13, Zechariah 1:4-6, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, Romans 2:21-23

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 34:14 - the law Proverbs 1:29 - that Isaiah 10:6 - against Isaiah 57:4 - are ye Isaiah 57:11 - that thou Jeremiah 4:17 - because Jeremiah 26:9 - Why Jeremiah 35:14 - but ye Jeremiah 36:2 - a roll Ezekiel 12:2 - thou Ezekiel 24:2 - write Ezekiel 24:3 - the rebellious Hosea 8:12 - but Hosea 11:2 - they called John 3:19 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 29:35
And once more, she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as his wife, and he slept with her,

Genesis 30:17
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That this [is] a rebellious people,.... This, with what follows, is what the Lord would have written and engrossed, and remain for ever; or this is a reason why he would have it, for so the words be rendered, "for", or "because, this [is] a rebellious people l"; rebellious against God and his commands; they are called "rebellious children" before, Isaiah 30:1 and, as it follows,

lying children; false spurious ones, only called, not truly, the children of God, and lied when they called themselves so, and were guilty of lying also, not only to God, but to one another:

children [that] will not hear the law of the Lord; either read, or explained, at least, not so as to be obedient to it; and such must be rebellious ones, and deserve not to be called the children of God. The Targum is,

"children that like not to receive the doctrine of the law of the Lord.''

l כי עם "nam populus", Forerius, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius "quia", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That this is a rebellious people - (see the note at Isaiah 1:2).

Lying children - They had promised in solemn covenant to take Yahweh as their God, but they had been unfaithful to their vows.