Isaiah 30:13

"Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,"

Key Reflection

The Holy One of Israel declares through Isaiah that because the people are rejecting his word in favor of false security derived from oppressive and corrupt practices, he will judge them harshly. The original audience would have recognized this as a warning against relying on human strategies and deceit rather than God’s true guidance, highlighting the consequences of their misplaced trust and rejection of divine wisdom.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore 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 -That is, where the foundation is not firm, and where one part of the wall sinks, and it inclines to one side until it suddenly bursts forth.

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