Isaiah 30:21
19 O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.
20 The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
23 Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- KJV
- And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- WEB
- and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- ASV
- and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- DARBY
- And when ye turn to the right hand or when ye turn to the left, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.
- BLB
- And Your ears will hear a word from behind you, saying, “This [is] the way; walk in it,” when you⁺ turn to the right or when you⁺ turn to the left.
- ÅB
- og når du viker av til høyre eller til venstre, skal dine ører høre et ord lyde bak deg: Dette er veien, gå på den!
- OTB
- Uansett hvor dere vender dere, vil deres ører høre en stemme bak dere, som sier, "Dette er veien; gå på den."
- B1930
- og når du viker av til høire eller til venstre, skal dine ører høre et ord lyde bak dig: Dette er veien, gå på den!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
Read in contextProverbs 3:5–6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
Read in contextIsaiah 58:11
The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Read in contextIsaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
Read in contextIsaiah 35:8–9
And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.
Read in contextPsalms 143:8–10
Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
Read in contextIsaiah 48:17
Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
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