Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 30:13
This iniquity — Of trusting to Egypt, shall be like a wall which is high, but swelling forth in some parts, which, upon the least accident, falls down suddenly.
This iniquity — Of trusting to Egypt, shall be like a wall which is high, but swelling forth in some parts, which, upon the least accident, falls down suddenly.
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...
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 invo...
CHAPTER 30 The Fourth Woe Against Alliance With Egypt 1. _The alliance and its failure (Isaiah 30:1)_ 2. _The written table against the rebellious people (Isaiah 30:8)_ 3. Jehovah's word of encourage...
This passage is introduced by a strange title, Oracle concerning the beasts of the Negeb, _i.e._ either the beasts who carry the treasure to Egypt (Isaiah 30:6_ b_), or the wild creatures that infest...
The answer of "Israel's Holy One," whose revelation is thus challenged....
Disaster will follow their policy with the necessity of a natural law. The best translation seems to be: THEREFORE THIS GUILT SHALL BE TO YOU AS A RENT DESCENDING (lit. "falling") ( AND) BULGING OUT I...
WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL— The consequence of the fault is here exhibited by the prophet in two sentences; the former in these verses, the latter in Isaiah 30:15. The prophet in this...
B. FRIENDS THAT FETTER, Chapter S 30-31 1. SHAME TEXT: Isaiah 30:1-14 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit...
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. AS A BREACH READY TO FALL - image from a curve swelling...
30:13 instant. (f-27) Or 'unexpectedly,' as Numbers 6:9 ....
THIS INIQUITY] i.e. disregard of Isaiah's admonition and reliance on Egypt is a symptom of ruin, like the bulging of a wall on the point of falling....
1-7. The Egyptian alliance is profitless. 8-11. The perversity of Judah, 12-17. and its disastrous consequences. 18-26. There is a glorious prospect for the repentant people. 27-33 But first Jehov...
God warns the people that their evil behaviour is ruining their own lives. They will suffer terrible troubles. And those troubles will happen as suddenly as a wall crashes to the ground....
AS A BREACH READY TO FALL. — The ill-built, half-decayed houses of Jerusalem may have furnished the outward imagery of the parable. First comes the threatening bulge, then the crack, and then the cras...
לָכֵ֗ן יִֽהְיֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ הֶ עָוֹ֣ן הַ זֶּ֔ה
BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...
FATAL RELIANCE ON HUMAN AID Isaiah 30:1-17 Toward the close of the 8th century, b.c. Jerusalem sent ambassadors to seek help from Egypt against Assyria, in distinct defiance of God's repeated warning...
This chapter contains two distinct messages. In the first, the prophet denounces an alliance with Egypt (verses Isa 30:1-26), and in the second foretells the destruction of Assyria (verses Isa 30:27-3...
_For. Psalm lxi. 3. If God had not miraculously cut off the army of Sennacherib, what would have become of the kingdom of Juda?_...
It should seem that Isaiah wrote to them, as well as preached to them. And as Israel's rebellion descended, like the blood in the veins, from father to son, there needed a standing memorial on the sub...
13._Therefore shall your iniquity be like a breach falling. _This is a threatening of punishment, and Isaiah expresses it by a very appropriate metaphor. He compares wicked men to a wall that is rent,...
The effect of this unbelief is manifested in chapter 30. The people put their trust in man, according to the wisdom of man. They look to Egypt for help, but in vain. This contempt of Jehovah, accompan...
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 c...
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. Ver. 13. _Therefore this iniquity shall be unto you,_] _q...
_Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression_ In the wealth which you have gotten by oppression, whereby you now think to procure Egyptian succours; _and perverseness_ In your perverse and r...
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, the bulging out of the wall indicating that it was about to topple over, whose breaking cometh suddenly,...
THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE...
8-18 The Jews were the only professing people God then had in the world, yet many among them were rebellious. They had the light, but they loved darkness rather. The prophets checked them in their si...
THIS INIQUITY, of sending and trusting to Egypt for succour. WHOSE BREAKING COMETH SUDDENLY AT AN INSTANT; like a wall which is high, and seems to be strong, but swelling forth in some parts, which up...
Isaiah 30:13 iniquity H5771 breach H6556 fall H5307 (H8802) bulge H1158 (H8737) high H7682 (H8737) wall...
THEIR TRUST IN OTHER THAN YAHWEH AND THEIR TANTAMOUNT REJECTION OF HIM CAN ONLY RESULT IN DISASTER. SECURITY RESTS IN TRUSTING IN YAHWEH (ISAIAH 30:8). Isaiah is to write his words down as a testimony...
CONTENTS: Warnings against alliance with Egypt against Sennacherib and exhortation to turn to the Lord for help. CHARACTERS: God, Pharoah. CONCLUSION: When sin has brought men into distress, it is th...
Isaiah 30:1. _Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me._ It was a law among all ancient nations to undertake nothing of importance without consulting the gods....
_As a breach ready to fall._ - A RETRIBUTIVE CRASH The best translation seems to be: “Therefore this guilt shall be to you as a rent descending (literally, “falling”) (and) bulging out in a high wal...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 30:1 THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT OPENLY REBUKED. In the preceding chapter (Isaiah 30:15) the design of the Jewish rulers to seek the alliance of Egypt was covertly
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to their sin (Isaiah 30:1): Now these pe...
1 Kings 20:30; 1 Thessalonians 5:1; Ezekiel 13:10; Isaiah 29:5;...