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Isaiah 30:14

The result will be terribly total.

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v15 Therefore, this is what God the *Lord, the Holy God of Israel, says: ‘If you quietly turn to me, you will know rescue. If you quietly put your trust in me, you will be strong. v16 But you refuse. You say that you will ride away on horses at great speed. Therefore, those enemies who chase you will also ride at great speed. You say that you will ride very fast. But those who pursue you will ride even faster. v17 A thousand of you will run away, if no more than five men just shout at you. And so few of you will escape from the enemy, that they will seem like a single pole on the top of a mountain. Or like a lonely flag on a hill.’

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 30:14. _HE SHALL NOT SPARE _- "And spareth it not"] Five MSS. add the conjunction ו _vau_ to the negative; ולא _velo_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND HE SHALL BREAK IT AS THE BREAKING - That is, its breaking shall be like the breaking of a potter’s vessel. The Septuagint reads it, ‘And its fall (τὸ πτῶμα _to_ _ptōma_) shall be like the break...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS THE BREAKING OF THE POTTERS' VESSEL. The reference is to the manufacture of _homrah,_ by breaking up pottery to powder in order to make cement of it. Carried on in the valley of Hinnom. See note on...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The answer of "Israel's Holy One," whose revelation is thus challenged....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _he shall break it_ or: IT SHALL BE BROKEN. _that is broken … spare_ R.V. "breaking it in pieces without sparing"; better: SHIVERING IT UNSPARINGLY (Cheyne). _in the bursting of it_ AMONG ITS FRAGME...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AS THE BREAKING OF THE POTTERS’ VESSEL... Psalms 2:9 had given currency to the figure. In Jeremiah 18:4; Jeremiah 19:10, it passes into a parable of action. The schemes of the intriguers were to be no...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ֠ שְׁבָרָהּ כְּ שֵׁ֨בֶר נֵ֧בֶל יֹוצְרִ֛ים כ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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 ------------...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it (m) a piece to take fire from the hear...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._And the breaking of it shall be. _When a wall has fallen, some traces of the ruin are still to be seen, and the stones of it may be applied to use, and to some extent the wall may even be rebuilt....

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SHALL BREAK IT AS THE BREAKING OF THE POTTER'S VESSEL,.... That is, their confidence in an arm of flesh, and they that place it there; and this either God shall do, or the enemy, and God by him...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And He, Jehovah, in His judgment upon the apostate nation, SHALL BREAK IT AS THE BREAKING OF THE POTTERS' VESSEL THAT IS BROKEN IN PIECES, intentionally smashed into fragments; HE SHALL NOT SPARE, SO...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    VESSEL: _ Heb._ the bottle of potters...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE SHALL BREAK IT; he, either God, or he whom God shall send against them. Or, _it shall be broken_; for such phrases are oft taken indefinitely and passively; it, this iniquity last mentioned, ISAIAH...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 30:14 break H7665 (H8804) breaking H7667 potters H3335 (H8802) vessel H5035 pieces H3807 (H8800) spare...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vessel_ A POTTERY MOUND One of the most curious objects in Rome is a huge artificial mound called Monte Testaccio. It stands near the gate of St. P...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:5; Deuteronomy 29:20; Ezekiel 15:3; Ezekiel

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He — God...

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