Isaiah 30:8

Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shall be for many long days, and even forever.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

7The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain.

9For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:

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Cross References

Numbers 24:14And now, behold, I return to my place; come, I will advise thee of what this people shall do to thy people in the last days.

Deuteronomy 31:19And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and ye shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to their face.

Deuteronomy 31:29For I know that after my death ye will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you in the latter days, because ye will do evil before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of your hands.

Isaiah 2:2For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.

Jeremiah 23:20And the Lord’s wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.

Jeremiah 36:4Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:2-8

The Foolish Confidence of Judah. ( b. c. 720.) 1 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: 2 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! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and… Read the whole commentary →

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