What does Isaiah 30:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now go, write it before them in a table,a and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:"
Verse Isaiah 30:8. _FOR EVER AND EVER _- "For a testimony for ever"] לעד _leed_. So the _Syriac, Chaldee, Vulgate_, and _Septuagint_, in MSS. Pachom. and I. D. II. εις μαρτυριον, which two words have...
NOW GO - This is a direction to the prophet to make a permanent record of the character of the Jewish people. The fact to be recorded was, that they were rebellious Isaiah 30:9; the design for which t...
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 encourag...
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...
A TABLE. a tablet. NOTE. inscribe. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 17:14; Exodus 24:4. THE TIME TO COME. the latter day....
What is it that Isaiah is here directed to commit to writing? According to Delitzsch, the contents of the short oracle, Isaiah 30:6; according to others, merely the pithy sentence with which it closes...
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...
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: A TABLE - a tablet (Habakkuk 2:2), which should set in public, containing the...
30:8 record (c-11) Lit. 'engrave.' witness (d-27) Instead of 'as a witness for ever,' many take it as 'for ever and ever;' but cf. Deuteronomy 31:26 ....
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 has plainly warned the people about Egypt. Now he tells Isaiah to make a permanent record of what he has said. The people will not be able to pretend that they did not know. Verse 10-11 The peop...
NOW GO, WRITE IT BEFORE THEM IN A TABLE. — We have before seen this in one of Isaiah’s methods for giving special emphasis to his teaching (Isaiah 8:1). The word, we may believe, passed into the act i...
עַתָּ֗ה בֹּ֣וא כָתְבָ֥הּ עַל ־ל֛וּחַ אִתָּ֖ם וְ עַל ־סֵ֣פֶר חֻקָּ֑הּ וּ תְהִי֙ לְ יֹ֣ום...
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 warnin...
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...
Now go, write (g) it before them in a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may be for the (h) time to come for ever and ever: (g) That is, this prophecy. (h) That is may be a witness against them...
_Box. This word was covered with wax. (Propertius iii. 3.) --- Write, that none may pretend that they were not admonished. Some think that this was addressed to Jeremias: but Isaias spoke to his incre...
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...
8._Now go, and write this vision on a tablet. _After having convicted the Jews of manifest unbelief, he means that it should be attested and sealed by permanent records, that posterity may know how ob...
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...
NOW GO, WRITE IT BEFORE THEM IN A TABLE, AND NOTE IT IN A BOOK,.... Meaning their sins, their rebellion against God, their trust in an arm of flesh, and contempt of the divine word; or the prophecy of...
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: Ver. 8. _Now go, write before them in a table, and note it in a book._] He had p...
_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...
THE TIME TO COME: _ Heb._ the latter day...
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...
WRITE IT; write this prophecy and warning which I have now delivered. BEFORE THEM; in their presence, in the public assembly; for the prophets were many times commanded to do such actions, as well as...
Isaiah 30:8 go H935 (H8798) write H3789 (H8798) tablet H3871 note H2710 (H8798) scroll H5612 time H3117 come H314 Forever H5704 H5703 ever H5769 write - Isaiah 8:1; Deuteronomy 31:19,...
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 testimon...
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 t...
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....
_Note it in a book_ KEEPING A JOURNAL (for children):-- I. THE JOURNAL YOU MAY KEEP. You may spend your pocket money in a book, pen and ink, and set up a journal. If so-- 1. Its nature. (1) Not a...
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 glanced at and conde...
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 Timothy 4:1; 2 Peter 3:3; Deuteronomy 31:19; Deuteronomy 31:22; Deuteronomy 31:29; Deuteronomy 4:30; Ezekiel 38:16; Habakkuk 2:2; Hosea 3:5;...
Write — This warning. Before — In their presence. Note it — So this was to be written twice over, once in a table, to be hanged up in some public place, that all present might read it; and again, in a...