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

11Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.” 12For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior. So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash. 14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.” 15For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, but you are unwilling.

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 remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room.
• Psalms 62:3How long will you threaten a man? All of you are murderers, as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.
• Ezekiel 13:10“‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash.
• Matthew 7:27The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”
• Luke 6:49But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”
• Isaiah 29:5But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.
• Job 36:18Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
• Psalms 73:19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
• Proverbs 29:1The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:1Now on the topic of times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you.

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