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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Isaiah 30

Chapter 30

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

A. M. cir. 3291. B.C. cir. 713. the rebellious

9 1:2 63:10 65:2 Deuteronomy 9:7,24 29:19 Jeremiah 4:17 5:23 Ezekiel 2:3 Ezekiel 3:9,26,27 12:2,3 Hosea 7:13 Acts 7:51,52

that take

8:19 29:15 1 Chronicles 10:13,14 Hosea 4:10-12

cover

4:5 *marg:; 28:15,20 32:2 Psalms 61:4 91:1-4

add

1:5 5:18 Numbers 32:14 Hosea 13:2 Romans 2:5 2 Timothy 3:13

That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

walk

20:5,6 31:1-3 36:6 Deuteronomy 28:68 2 Kings 17:4 Jeremiah 37:5 43:7 Ezekiel 29:6,7

and have

Numbers 27:21 Joshua 9:14 1 Kings 22:7 Jeremiah 21:2 42:2,20

the shadow

16:3 18:1 Judges 9:15 Lamentations 4:20

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

the strength

5-7 20:5 Jeremiah 37:5-10

your confusion

45:16,17 Jeremiah 17:5,6 Romans 5:5 10:11

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

his princes

57:9 2 Kings 17:4 Hosea 7:11,12,16

Zoan

19:11 Numbers 13:22 Ezekiel 30:14

Hanes

Jeremiah 43:7

Tahpanhes

Ezekiel 30:18

Tehaphnehes

Verse 5

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

16 20:5,6 31:1-3 Jeremiah 2:36

The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

burden

46:1,2 57:9 Hosea 8:9,10 12:1

beasts

1 Kings 10:2 Matthew 12:42

into the land

Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "through a land of distress and difficulty:" the same deserts are here spoken of which the Israelites passed through.

19:4 Exodus 1:14 5:10-21 Deuteronomy 4:20 8:15 17:16 Jeremiah 11:4

the viper

Numbers 21:6,7 Deuteronomy 8:15 Jeremiah 2:6

riches

2 Chronicles 9:1 16:2 28:20-23

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

the Egyptians

31:1-5 Jeremiah 37:7

concerning this

or, to her. Their.

15 2:22 7:4 28:12 Exodus 14:13 Psalms 76:8,9 118:8,9 Lamentations 3:26 Hosea 5:13

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

write

8:1 Deuteronomy 31:19,22 Job 19:23,24 Jeremiah 36:2,28-32 51:60 Habakkuk 2:2

the time to come

Heb. the latter day.

2:2 Numbers 24:14 Deuteronomy 4:30 31:29 Job 19:25 Jeremiah 23:20 48:47 Ezekiel 38:16 Hosea 3:5 1 Timothy 4:1 2 Peter 3:3 Jude 1:18

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

this is

1 1:4 Deuteronomy 31:27-29 32:20 Jeremiah 44:2-17 Zephaniah 3:2 Matthew 23:31-33 Acts 7:51

lying

59:3 63:8 Jeremiah 9:3 Hosea 4:2 Revelation 21:8 22:15

will not

2 Chronicles 33:10 36:15,16 Nehemiah 9:29,30 Proverbs 28:9 Jeremiah 7:13 Zechariah 1:4-6 Zechariah 7:11,12 Romans 2:21-23

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

say

1 Kings 21:20 2 Chronicles 16:10 18:7-27 24:19-21 25:16 Jeremiah 5:31 11:21 Jeremiah 26:11,20-23 29:27 38:4 Amos 2:12 7:13 Micah 2:6 Acts 4:17 5:28 1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Revelation 11:7

speak

1 Kings 22:8-13,27 Jeremiah 6:13,14 8:10,11 23:17,26-29 Ezekiel 13:7-10 Ezekiel 13:18-22 Micah 2:11 John 7:7 8:45 Romans 16:18 Galatians 4:16

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

you out

29:21 Amos 7:13

cause

John 15:23,24 Romans 1:28,30 8:7 Ephesians 4:18

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Because

1,7,15-17 5:24 31:1-3 2 Samuel 12:9,10 Amos 2:4 Luke 10:16 1 Thessalonians 4:8

and trust

28:15 47:10 Psalms 52:7 62:10 Jeremiah 13:25

oppression

or, fraud.

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.

as a breach

1 Kings 20:30 Psalms 62:3 Ezekiel 13:10-15 Matthew 7:27 Luke 6:49

cometh

29:5 Job 36:18 Psalms 73:19,20 Proverbs 29:1 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

he shall break

Psalms 2:9 Jeremiah 19:10,11 Revelation 2:27

potters' vessel

Heb. bottle of potters. he shall not.

27:11 Deuteronomy 29:20 Job 27:22 Jeremiah 13:14 Ezekiel 5:11 7:4,9 8:18 9:10 Ezekiel 24:14 Romans 8:32 11:21 2 Peter 2:4,5

so that

47:14 Psalms 31:12 Jeremiah 48:38 Luke 4:2 Ezekiel 15:3-8

For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

the Holy One

11 Jeremiah 23:36

in returning

7 7:4 26:3,4 32:17 1 Chronicles 5:20 2 Chronicles 16:8 32:8 Psalms 125:1,2 Jeremiah 3:22,23 Hosea 14:1-3

and ye

Psalms 80:11-13 Jeremiah 44:16,17 Matthew 22:3 23:37 Luke 13:34 John 5:40 Hebrews 12:25

But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

for we will

5:26-30 10:28-32 31:1 Deuteronomy 28:25 2 Kings 25:5 Psalms 33:17 147:10 Jeremiah 52:7 Amos 2:14-16 9:1 Micah 1:13

therefore

Deuteronomy 28:49 Jeremiah 4:13 Lamentations 4:19 Habakkuk 1:8

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

thousand

Leviticus 26:8,36 Deuteronomy 28:25 32:30 Joshua 23:10 Proverbs 28:1 Jeremiah 37:10

till ye

1:7,8 37:3,4 Nehemiah 1:2,3 Zephaniah 3:12 Zechariah 13:8,9 Matthew 24:21,22

a beacon

or, a tree bereft of branches. or, boughs, or a mast.

6:13 27:11 John 15:2-6 Romans 11:17

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

therefore

55:8 Exodus 34:6 Hosea 2:14 Romans 5:20 9:15-18

wait

18:4 57:17,18 Jeremiah 31:18-20 Hosea 5:15 6:1,2 11:8,9 Jonah 3:4-10 Matthew 15:22-28 Luke 15:20 Romans 9:22 2 Peter 3:9,15

will he be

33:10-12 Psalms 46:10,11 76:5-10 Luke 24:26,27 Acts 2:33-39 5:31 Ephesians 1:6,20-23

for the Lord

33:5 42:1-4 Deuteronomy 32:4 1 Samuel 2:3 Job 35:14 Psalms 99:4 Jeremiah 10:24,25 Micah 7:18-20 Malachi 2:17 Romans 2:2-10 Ephesians 1:8

blessed

8:17 25:9 26:7,8 40:31 Psalms 2:12 27:14 28:6,7 34:8 40:1-3 Psalms 62:1,2,5-8 84:12 Proverbs 16:20 Jeremiah 17:7 Lamentations 3:25,26 Micah 7:7-9 Luke 2:25 Romans 8:25-28 James 5:11

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

dwell

10:24 12:6 46:13 65:9 Jeremiah 31:6,12 50:4,5,28 51:10 Ezekiel 20:40 Ezekiel 37:25-28 Zephaniah 3:14-20 Zechariah 1:16,17 2:4-7 8:3-8 Romans 11:26

thou shalt

12:3-6 25:8 35:10 40:1,2 54:6-14 60:20 61:1-3 65:18 Jeremiah 30:12 Jeremiah 31:9 Micah 4:9 Luke 6:21 Revelation 5:4 7:17

he will

58:9 65:24 Psalms 50:15 Jeremiah 29:11-13 33:3 Ezekiel 36:37 Matthew 7:7-11 Ephesians 3:20 1 John 5:14,15

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

the bread

Deuteronomy 16:3 1 Kings 22:27 2 Chronicles 18:26 Psalms 30:5 80:5 102:9 127:2 Ezekiel 4:13-17 24:22,23 Acts 14:22

affliction

or, oppression. yet shall.

Psalms 74:9 Amos 8:11,12 Matthew 9:38 Ephesians 4:11

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

thine ears

35:8,9 42:16 48:17 58:11 Psalms 25:8,9 143:8-10 Proverbs 3:5,6 Jeremiah 6:16 1 John 2:20,27

when ye turn to the right

Deuteronomy 5:32 Joshua 1:7 23:6 2 Kings 22:2 Psalms 32:8 Proverbs 4:27

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

defile

2:20,21 17:7,8 27:9 31:7 2 Kings 23:4-20 2 Chronicles 31:1 34:3-7 Ezekiel 36:31 Micah 5:10-14 Zechariah 13:2 Revelation 19:20

thy graven images of silver

Heb. the graven images of thy silver.

46:6 Exodus 32:2-4 Judges 17:3,4

cast

Heb. scatter. as a.

Lamentations 1:17 Ezekiel 18:6

Get

Hosea 14:8

Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

shall he

5:6 32:20 44:2-4 55:10,11 58:11 Psalms 65:9-13 104:13,14 Psalms 107:35-38 Jeremiah 14:22 Ezekiel 36:25,26 Hosea 2:21-23 Joel 2:21-26 Amos 4:7,8 Zechariah 8:11,12 10:1 Malachi 3:10 Matthew 6:33 1 Timothy 4:8

it shall

4:2 Psalms 36:8

thy cattle

Genesis 41:18,26,47 Psalms 144:12-14 Hosea 4:16 Malachi 4:2

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

oxen

Deuteronomy 25:4 1 Corinthians 9:9,10

ear the ground

Genesis 45:6 Exodus 34:21 Deuteronomy 21:4 1 Samuel 8:12

clean

or, savory. Heb. leavened.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

upon every high

2:14,15 35:6,7 41:18,19 43:19,20 44:3,4 Ezekiel 17:22 34:13,26 John 7:38 Revelation 22:1

high

Heb. lifted up. in the day.

34:2-10 37:36 63:1-6 Ezekiel 39:17-20 Revelation 16:1-19

when

32:14 Nahum 3:12 2 Corinthians 10:4

Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

the light of the moon

11:9 24:23 60:19,20 Zechariah 12:8 14:7 Revelation 21:23 22:5

bindeth

1:6 Deuteronomy 32:39 Job 5:18 Jeremiah 33:5,6 Lamentations 2:13 Hebrews 6:1,2 Amos 9:11

Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

burning

9:5 10:16,17 33:12 34:9 Deuteronomy 32:22 33:2 Psalms 18:7-9 79:5 Lamentations 1:12,13 Daniel 7:9 Nahum 1:5,6 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Hebrews 12:29

the burden thereof

or, the grievousness of flame. heavy. Heb. heaviness.

Zephaniah 3:8

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

his breath

11:4 Psalms 18:15 Luke 22:31 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Hebrews 4:12 Revelation 1:16 2:16

an overflowing

8:8 28:17,18 29:6 Habakkuk 3:12-15

to sift

Bp. Lowth renders, "to toss the nations with the van of perdition;" that is, says Kimchi, nothing useful shall remain behind, but all shall come to nothing and perish. The van of the ancients was a large instrument, somewhat like a shovel, with a long handle, with which they tossed the corn mixed with the chaff and chopped straw into the air, that the wind might separate them.

19:12,14 33:10-12 Hosea 13:3 Amos 9:9 Matthew 3:12

a bridle

37:29 2 Kings 19:28 Psalms 32:9 Proverbs 26:3

causing

19:3,13,14 2 Samuel 17:14 1 Kings 22:20-22 Job 39:17 Ezekiel 14:7-9 2 Thessalonians 2:11

Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

Ye shall

12:1 26:1 Exodus 15:1-21 2 Chronicles 20:27,28 Psalms 32:7 Jeremiah 33:11 Revelation 15:3 Jeremiah 19:1-7

in the night

Leviticus 23:32 Deuteronomy 16:6,14 Psalms 42:4 81:1-4 Matthew 26:30

with a pipe

1 Chronicles 13:7,8 Psalms 42:4 95:1,2 150:3-5

the mountain

2:3

mighty One

Heb. Rock.

26:4 Deuteronomy 32:4,31 Psalms 18:31

And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

the Lord

29:6 Psalms 2:5 18:13,14 46:6

his glorious voice

Heb. the glory of his voice.

Job 37:2-5 40:9 Psalms 29:3-9 Ezekiel 10:5 Revelation 1:15

the lighting

51:9 62:8 Exodus 15:16 Psalms 98:1 Luke 1:51

the flame

28:2 32:19 Joshua 10:11 1 Samuel 7:10 Psalms 18:13,14 50:1-3 76:5-8 Psalms 97:3-5 Ezekiel 38:19-22 Micah 1:4 Nahum 1:2-6 Matthew 24:7 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Revelation 6:12-17 11:19 14:16-20 16:18-21

For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

the voice

30 37:32-38

which smote

9:4 10:5,15,24 Psalms 17:13,14 125:5 Micah 5:5,6

And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

every place, etc

Heb. every passing of the rod founded. lay. Heb. cause to rest. it shall be.

29 24:8 Genesis 31:27 1 Samuel 10:5 Job 21:11,12 Psalms 81:1,2

shaking

2:19 11:15 19:16 Job 16:12 Hebrews 12:26

with it

or, against them.

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Tophet

2 Kings 23:10 Jeremiah 7:31,32 19:6,11-14 Matthew 4:22 18:8,9

ordained

Matthew 25:41 1 Peter 1:8 Jude 1:4

of old

Heb. from yesterday.

Hebrews 13:8

for the king

14:9-20 37:38 Ezekiel 32:22,23 Revelation 19:18-20

the breath

27,28 Genesis 19:24 Psalms 40:5,6 Revelation 14:10,11