Isaiah 30:9
7 Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
10 They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
11 Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
- KJV
- That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
- WEB
- For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law;
- ASV
- For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
- DARBY
- that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
- BLB
- for it [is] a rebellious people, sons of deceit, sons not willing to hear the instruction of YHWH,
- ÅB
- For det er et gjenstridig folk, løgnaktige barn, barn som ikke vil høre Herrens lov,
- OTB
- For dette er et opprørsk folk, svikefulle barn, barn som ikke vil lytte til Herrens instruksjon.
- B1930
- For det er et gjenstridig folk, løgnaktige barn, barn som ikke vil høre Herrens lov,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 30:1
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
Read in contextActs 7:51
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Read in contextProverbs 28:9
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
Read in contextZechariah 7:11–12
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
Read in contextZephaniah 3:2
She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
Read in contextZechariah 1:4–6
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
Read in contextRevelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Read in contextIsaiah 1:4
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
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