Because ye despise this word — i.e., the message which Isaiah had delivered against the alliance with Egypt. We note how the prophet enforces it, as coming from that very Holy One of Israel of whom they were tired of hearing.
Verse Isaiah 30:12. _IN OPPRESSION _- "In obliquity"] בעקש _beakesh_, transposing the two last letters of בעשק _beoshek, in oppression_, which seems not to belong to this place: a very probable conjec...
WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE HOLY ONE - Yahweh. There may be some reference here to the fact adverted to in Isaiah 30:11, that they were weary of the name of the Holy One of Israel, and of the perpetual r...
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...
TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _b_. _t_ ah (App-69.) Not the same word as in verses: Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 30:3. Same as in Isaiah 30:15....
_this word_ the warnings against the Egyptian alliance. _oppression and perverseness_(lit. "crookedness")] The first word is explained of the oppressive war taxation necessitated by the policy now fi...
The answer of "Israel's Holy One," whose revelation is thus challenged....
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...
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE HOLY ONE. Isaiah so little yields to...
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...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ קְדֹ֣ושׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יַ֥עַן...
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...
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in (l) oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it: (l) Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admon...
_Oppression. Literally, "calumny," (Haydock) or rebellion against the Assyrians. This was contrary to the respect due to God's name, used in the ratification of treaties, how wicked soever those princ...
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...
12._Because you have disdained this word. _He next declares the punishment of ungodliness, threatening that they shall not pass unpunished for refusing to hear God speaking; and he expresses their con...
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...
WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL,.... The prophet introduces his message with the phrase they objected to: ministers of the word must not seek to please men, nor should they be deterred fro...
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Ver. 12. _Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel._] The pro...
_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...
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, that same God against whom they were rebelling, BECAUSE YE DESPISE THIS WORD, regarding His warning with the deepest aversion, AND TRUST IN OPPRESSION AND...
THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE...
OPPRESSION: Or, fraud...
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...
IN OPPRESSION; in the wealth which you have gotten by oppression, whereby you now think to procure Egyptian succours; of which SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 30:6". AND PERVERSENESS; and in your perverse and re...
Isaiah 30:12 says H559 (H8804) One H6918 Israel H3478 despise H3988 (H8800) word H1697 trust H982 ...
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...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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....
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...
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 Thessalonians 4:8; 2 Samuel 12:10; 2 Samuel 12:9; Amos 2:4; Is
And trust — In the wealth which you have gotten by oppression, and in your perverse course of sending to Egypt for help....