Isaiah 30:13

Therefore this avon shall be to you 1 as a cracking breach ready to fall, 1 a bulge in a high chomah (wall), 1 whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12Therefore thus saith Kadosh Yisroel, 1 Because ye despise this davar, 1 and trust in oshek (oppression) and waywardness, 1 and rely thereon; 1

14And whose collapse is as the breaking of the clay jar of yotzerim (pottery makers) 1 that is broken in pieces; it shall not be spared; 1 so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard 1 to take eish from the fire, 1 or to take mayim therewith out of the cistern. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:30But the rest fled to Aphek, into the Ir; and there a chomah (wall) fell upon twenty and seven elef ish that were left. And Ben-Hadad fled, and went into the Ir, into cheder b'cheder (a room within a room, an inner room).

Psalms 62:3Truly He is my Tzur and my Yeshu'ah (salvation); 1 He is my stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. 1

Psalms 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a rega (moment)! 1 They are utterly consumed with balahot (terrors). 1

Isaiah 29:5Moreover the multitude of thy foes shall be like fine dust, 1 and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as motz (chaff) that in passing bloweth away; indeed, 1 it shall be at an instant suddenly. 1

Ezekiel 13:14So will I break down the kir (wall) that ye have plastered with mud-plaster, and bring it down to the ground, so that the yesod (foundation) thereof shall be laid bare, and it shall fall, and ye shall be destroyed in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I am Hashem.

Luke 6:49Now the one having heard, + 6:49 Rebbe Melech HaMoshiachʼs divrei torah and not having put them into practice, is like a man having built a bais (house) upon the ground without a yesod (foundation), which the river struck against, and ofen ort (immediately) the bais collapsed, and gadol (great) was the churban of that bais.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:9-18

Doom of Incorrigible Sinners. ( b. c. 720.) 8 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: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord : 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12… Read the whole commentary →

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