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Isaiah 30:9-11
The documents (as in Isaiah 8:16) are a protest against the persistent disobedience of the people. Render with R.V. For it is, &c.
The documents (as in Isaiah 8:16) are a protest against the persistent disobedience of the people. Render with R.V. For it is, &c.
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....
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...
CHILDREN. sons. LAW: or, instruction contained in the law of Moses, See note on Isaiah 1:10....
NOW GO, WRITE IT BEFORE THEM, &C.— See the analysis. The Spirit of God, about to convict the degenerate people of the foolishness of their counsels, pierces into the inmost source of their errors, nam...
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...
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: LYING CHILDREN - unfaithful to Yahweh, whose covenant they had taken on them as His adopted child...
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...
THE LAW] i.e. oral instruction given through the prophet (Isaiah 8:16)....
THAT THIS IS A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE. — The words that follow were those which were thus written on the tablet. The people did not know the law of the Lord, the eternal law of right, themselves. They wish...
כִּ֣י עַ֤ם מְרִי֙ ה֔וּא בָּנִ֖ים כֶּחָשִׁ֑ים...
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...
That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not (i) hear the law of the LORD: (i) He shows what was the cause of their destruction and brings also all misery to man: that...
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...
9._For this is a rebellious people. _The word _for _or _because _points to the explanation of what has been already said; for the Prophet explains what the Lord intends to declare to posterity, namely...
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...
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 r...
That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD: Ver. 9. _That this is a rebellious people._] _Isaiae concepta verba praeit Deus; _ God dictateth...
_Now go, write it before them_ Write this prophecy and warning, which I have now delivered, in their presence; _in a table, and in a book_ So it was to be written twice over, once in a table, to be hu...
THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE...
that this is a rebellious people, v. 1, LYING CHILDREN, unfaithful to Jehovah, with whom they had entered into a covenant as His children, CHILDREN THAT WILL NOT HEAR THE LAW OF THE LORD, setting asid...
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...
LYING CHILDREN; which profess one thing, and practise another. THE LAW OF THE LORD; the commands of God, either contained in Scripture, or delivered by my mouth, whereby these practices are expressly...
Isaiah 30:9 rebellious H4805 people H5971 Lying H3586 children H1121 Children H1121 will H14 (H8804) hear H8085 ...
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...
Isaiah 30:9 I. A chief part of the work of the pulpit is the plain and fervent teaching of daily-life morality. Despite the opinions of those who are ready to say that morality is not the Gospel, I sa...
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....
_This is a rebellious people_ DISLIKE TO MINISTERIAL FIDELITY The Jews have very many followers under the Christian dispensation. I. STATE THE TRUTHS WHICH ARE USUALLY OBNOXIOUS TO SUCH PERSONS. The...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 30:9 Isaiah’s generation feared Assyrian aggression. The prophet understands that the real threat to them is their unwillingness to hear God’s saving word. SMOOTH THINGS... ILLUS...
DISLIKE TO MINISTERIAL FIDELITY Isaiah 30:9. _This is a rebellious people, &c._ Many wish to be deceived. They have made truth their enemy and shrink from the light, desiring present relief and peace...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:10; 2 Chronicles 36:15; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Acts 7:51;...