Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
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Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon;
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Passages linked to Isaiah 30:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 31:1-3 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh! Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
- Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Amos 2:4 Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
- Isaiah 47:10 For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
- Luke 10:16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
- 2 Samuel 12:9-10 Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
- Psalms 52:7 “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
- Psalms 62:10 Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
- Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
- Isaiah 28:15 “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”
- Isaiah 30:1 “Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
- Isaiah 30:7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
- Isaiah 30:15-17 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused, but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift. One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
- Jeremiah 13:25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admonitions…
Meaning, in their stubbornness against God and the admonitions of his Prophets.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of…
Isa 30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Ver. 12. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel.] The prophet doth on purpose repeat this title, so much disrelished by them, to cross them. Ministers must not be men pleasers.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In oppression; in the wealth which you have gotten…
In oppression; in the wealth which you have gotten by oppression, whereby you now think to procure Egyptian succours; of which See Poole "Isa 30:6".
And perverseness; and in your perverse and rebellious course of sending to Egypt for help.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,.... The…
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,.... The prophet introduces his message with the phrase they objected to: ministers of the word must not seek to please men, nor should they be deterred from the use of phrases, because disliked by natural men: as, in our days, men do not love to hear the name of Christ so often mentioned, or his Gospel, or the glorious truths of it; but the use of them should not be left off on that account, but rather they should be the more inculcated, as we find this phrase was; see Isa 30:15,
Because ye despise this word; either this name of the Lord, "the Holy One of Israel"; or this prophecy that was delivered unto them, which reproved them for their confidence in Egypt, and exhorted them to sit still at home, and trust in the Lord; but instead of that they trusted in what was very bad, as follows:
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but trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon; either in oppressors, and perverse persons, as the Egyptians were; or in their wealth, got by oppression, rapine, and fraud, which they carried to Egypt, and on which they depended for help and relief; and in that perverse disposition of mind, contradicting the Lord speaking by his prophets, resolving to take their own way, not doubting but that they should have success.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain And trust - In the wealth which you have…
And trust - In the wealth which you have gotten by oppression, and in your perverse course of sending to Egypt for help.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. In oppression - "In obliquity"] בעקש beakesh,…
Verse 12. In oppression - "In obliquity"] בעקש beakesh, transposing the two last letters of בעשק beoshek, in oppression, which seems not to belong to this place: a very probable conjecture of Houbigant.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 30:12-14. Because ye despise this word, and trust…
Isa 30:12-14. Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression — In the wealth which you have gotten by oppression, whereby you now think to procure Egyptian succours; and perverseness — In your perverse and rebellious course of sending to Egypt for help. This iniquity shall be to you as a breach, &c. — Like a wall, which is high, and seems to be strong, but, swelling out in some parts, upon the least accident falleth down suddenly to the ground. Such shall be the issue of your high and towering confidence in Egypt. And he shall break it — Namely, God, or the enemy whom God will send against you.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Wherefore thus saith the Holy One - Yahweh. There…
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One - Yahweh. There may be some reference here to the fact adverted to in Isa 30:11, that they were weary of the name of the Holy One of Israel, and of the perpetual reiteration of his commands. Isaiah, as if to show them how little he was disposed to comply with their prejudices, again makes an appeal to that name, and urges the authority of Yahweh. It is often proper to “repeat” the very doctrine to which sinners object, and which has given them offence. That they are offended, shows that their minds are “awake” to the truth, and gives some indication that their consciences trouble them. Ministers of God should never shrink from their duty because people oppose them; they should never cease to speak in the name and by the authority of the Holy One of Israel, because that name may excite opposition and disgust.
Ye despise this word - That is, the word or message of Yahweh Isa 28:13-14; or perhaps it means the word ‘Holy One of Israel.’ The sense is, that they did not trust in the promise and protection of Yahweh, but relied on human aid.
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And trust in oppression - Margin, ‘Fraud.’ The word עשׁק ‛osheq properly denotes oppression, or extortion Ecc 5:7; Eze 22:7, Eze 22:12; then, that which is obtained by extortion, and also by fraud Lev 6:4; Psa 62:11; Ecc 7:7. It may refer here to the fact that they had, by unjust and oppressive exactions, obtained the treasures referred to in Isa 30:6, by which they hoped to conciliate the favor of Egypt; or it may mean that they trusted in their fraudulent purposes toward God, that is, to a false and perfidious course, by which they were unfaithful to him.
Perverseness - A crooked, perverse, rebellious course. They refused submission to Yahweh, and relied on the aid of strangers.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Oppression. Literally, "calumny," (Haydock) or rebellion against the Assyrians.…
Oppression. Literally, "calumny," (Haydock) or rebellion against the Assyrians. This was contrary to the respect due to God’s name, used in the ratification of treaties, how wicked soever those princes might be.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Holy One--Isaiah so little yields to their wicked prejudices…
Holy One--Isaiah so little yields to their wicked prejudices that he repeats the very name and truth which they disliked.
this word--Isaiah's exhortation to reliance on Jehovah.
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oppression--whereby they levied the treasures to be sent to conciliate Egypt (Isa 30:6).
perverseness--in relying on Egypt, rather than on Jehovah.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12-14. Instead of complying with their desires — see…
12-14. Instead of complying with their desires — see above — the prophet again repeats the message from the very holy Name they so much dread to hear. Because they reject this word, “the law” of Jehovah, (Isa_30:9,) the consequence to them is utter ruin; unseen, indeed, in its oncoming, yet rapidly approaching with sudden and crushing disaster.
As a breach… swelling out — The similes are striking, like an unseen “breach” causing a hitherto unnoticed swell in the outward high wall, till suddenly the whole breaks and tumbles into ruin irretrievable; like the poor man’s pot broken with so complete a smash that not a serviceable piece remains for holding a coal of fire or a drop of water in domestic uses. The broken piece of a potter’s vessel is more commonly in our version called a potsherd.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. this word] the warnings against the Egyptian alliance.
12. this word] the warnings against the Egyptian alliance.
oppression and perverseness (lit. “crookedness”)] The first word is explained of the oppressive war taxation necessitated by the policy now finally decided on; this is not altogether obvious, and some prefer, by transposing two consonants, to read “perverseness and crookedness.” The same words are conjoined in Pro_2:15.
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12–14. The answer of “Israel’s Holy One,” whose revelation is thus challenged.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Because ye despise this word—i.e., the message which…
(12) Because ye despise this word—i.e., the message which Isaiah had delivered against the alliance with Egypt. We note how the prophet enforces it, as coming from that very Holy One of Israel of whom they were tired of hearing.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Because ye despise this word; rather, because ye reject…
Because ye despise this word; rather, because ye reject this word. (see 1Sa_8:7 1Sa_15:23, 26 2Ki_17:15, etc.) The "word" intended is probably the prophecy against trusting in Egypt (vers. 1-7). And trust in oppression; or, extortion. Oppressive measures employed to obtain the rich gifts which had to be sent into Egypt (ver. 6) are probably intended. (setup. 2Ki_15:20) Gratz and Cheyne change the reading from oshek to ikkesh ("perverseness"); but without any necessity. And perverseness; literally, crookedness; i.e. "tortuous policy" (Kay). And stay thereon; rather, lean or stay yourselves thereon.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain (See Scofield "Psa 2:12")
trust
(See Scofield "Psa 2:12")
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Holy One of Israel
Holy One of Israel
See how you translated this name in Isaiah 1:4.
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you reject this word
"you reject this message"
trust in oppression and deceit and lean on it
Possible meanings are 1) the leaders of Judah are trusting in the Egyptian leaders who rule by oppressing and deceiving others or 2) the leaders of Judah have oppressed and deceived their own people in order to take their money and send it to the Egyptians leaders as payment for protection. (See: Metonymy)
lean on it
Here the word "it" refers to "oppression and deceit." AT: "lean on them" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)
lean on
This is an idiom that means to trust or rely on something. (See: Idiom)
so this sin will be to you like a broken part ... in an instant
This simile means that God will destroy the people of Judah suddenly because of their sin. (See: Simile)
like a broken part ready to fall
It is understood that this is a broken part of a wall. AT: "like a broken part of a wall that is ready to fall" (See: Ellipsis)
whose fall will happen suddenly
This can be reworded so that the abstract noun "fall" is expressed as the verb "fall." AT: "that will suddenly fall" (See: Abstract Nouns)
suddenly, in an instant
These mean the same thing and emphasize how quickly the wall will fall. (See: Doublet)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 30:12-17 Judgment would suddenly overtake the people of Judah…
30:12-17 Judgment 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.
30:12 The whole society accepted oppression and lies. People reinforced each other’s delusions, so it was considered acceptable to trust that Egypt would protect them from Assyria, even though that was a lie. It was also considered legal and legitimate to oppress the poor by taking their land.
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