Isaiah 30:14

And 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13Therefore 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

15For thus saith 1 Adonoi Hashem Kadosh Yisroel; 1 In shuvah (returning) and rest shall ye be saved; 1 in quietness and in confidence shall be your gevurah (strength); 1 but ye would not. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:20And Hashem shall him separate out for disaster from all the Shivtei Yisroel, according to all the curses of HaBrit that are written in Sefer HaTorah Hazeh;

Psalms 2:9Thou shalt rule them with a shevet barzel; 1 thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potterʼs vessel. 1

Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof are dry, 1 they shall be broken off; 1 the nashim come, and set them on fire; 1 for it is a people of no understanding; 1 therefore He that made them will not have compassion on them, 1 and He that formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 13:14And I will dash them one against another, even the avot and the banim together, saith Hashem; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have rachamim, but destroy them. 1

Jeremiah 19:11And shalt say unto them, Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a yotzerʼs vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet, until there be no makom (place, room) to bury.

Ezekiel 5:11Therefore, as I live, saith Adonoi Hashem; Surely, because thou hast made My Mikdash tameh with all thy shikkutzim, and with all thine to'avot, therefore will I also withdraw; neither shall Mine eye pity, neither will I spare.

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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