Isaiah 30:13

Isaiah 30:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
• New International Version (NIV)this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.
• English Standard Version (ESV)therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

Context of Isaiah 30:13

11Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.’ ” 12This is what the Holy One of Israel says: You have rejected this warning, trusted oppression and deceit, and leaned on them. That is why your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall. 14It will break like pottery. It will be smashed, and nothing will be left of it. No piece will be big enough to carry live coals from a fireplace or to dip water from a reservoir. 15This is what the Almighty Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: You can be saved by returning to me. You can have rest. You can be strong by being quiet and by trusting me. But you don’t want that.

Isaiah 30:13 word by word

לָכֵ֗ן יִֽהְיֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ הֶעָוֹ֣ן הַזֶּ֔ה כְּפֶ֣רֶץ נֹפֵ֔ל נִבְעֶ֖ה בְּחוֹמָ֣ה נִשְׂגָּבָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־פִּתְאֹ֥ם לְפֶ֖תַע יָב֥וֹא שִׁבְרָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore this iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• shall be to you as a breachפֶּ֫רֶץperets · breachH6556
• ready to fallנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
• swelling outבָּעָהbâ‛âh · to enquireH1158
• in a highשָׂגַבώâgab · to exaltH7682
• wallחוֹמָהchômâh · wallH2346
• whose breakingשֶׁ֫בֶרsheber shêber · breakingH7667
• comethבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• suddenlyפִּתְאֹםpith'ôm pith'ôm · suddenlyH6597
• at an instantפֶּתַעpetha‛ · suddennessH6621

Cross-references for Isaiah 30:13

• 1 Kings 20:30The survivors fled to Aphek, the city where the wall fell on 27,000 of them. Benhadad had also fled. He came to the city and hid in an inner room.
• Psalms 62:3How long will all of you attack a person? How long will you try to murder him, as though he were a leaning wall or a sagging fence?
• Ezekiel 13:10“ ‘They have deceived my people by saying that everything is alright, but it’s not alright. When someone builds a flimsy wall, the prophets cover it up with paint.
• Matthew 7:27Rain poured, and floods came. Winds blew and struck that house. It collapsed, and the result was a total disaster.”
• Luke 6:49The person who hears ⌞what I say⌟ but doesn’t obey it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. The floodwaters pushed against it, and that house quickly collapsed and was destroyed.”
• Isaiah 29:5Your many enemies will be like fine dust. Your many foes will be like husks blown by the wind. All of this will happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
• Job 36:18Be careful that you are not led astray with riches. Don’t let a large bribe turn you ⌞to evil ways⌟.
• Psalms 73:19They are suddenly destroyed. They are completely swept away by terror!
• Proverbs 29:1A person who will not bend after many warnings will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:1Brothers and sisters, you don’t need anyone to write to you about times and dates.

Commentaries on Isaiah 30:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Swelling out to a high wall "A swelling in a high wall" - It has been observed before, that the buildings of Asia generally consist of little better than what we call mud walls. "All the houses at Ispahan, "says Thevenot, Vol. II., p. 159, "are built of bricks made of clay and straw, and dried in the sun; and covered with a plaster made of a fine white stone. In other places in Persia the houses are built with nothing else but such bricks, made with…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Therefore this iniquity - That is, this refusing to trust in Yahweh, and this intention to seek the alliance of Egypt. The general sense of the figure here is, that their depending on Egypt would involve them ultimately in complete and awful ruin - ruin that should come upon them as suddenly as when a wall that had been long swelling out gives way. As a breach ready to fall - Like a breaking forth, or a bursting in a wall. Swelling out in a high wall…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-18Verses 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 sinful pursuits, so that they could not proceed without fear; this they took amiss. But faithful ministers will not be driven from seeking to awaken sinners. God is the Holy One of Israel, and so they shall find him. They did not like to hear of his holy…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-17Judgment would suddenly overtake the people of Judah because they were content with their fantasy world, and they refused God’s path to rest and quietness.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Image from a curve swelling out in a wall (Psa 62:3); when the former gives way, it causes the downfall of the whole wall; so their policy as to Egypt.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 30:13

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Godlessness
• Isaiah
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Word of God

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Commentaries on Isaiah 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings