Isaiah 30:9

It would remind them that they are deceitful and always rebelling against Yahweh; they refuse to pay attention to what he tells/teaches them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Yahweh told me to write on a scroll a message, in order that it would be a witness to the people of Judah that would endure forever.

10They tell the people who see/receive visions from Yahweh, “Stop seeing visions!” They tell the prophets, “Do not reveal to us what is right! Tell us pleasant things; do not tell us visions about things that are true!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:27I say this because I know that these people are very stubborn [DOU]. They have rebelled against Yahweh all during the time that I have been with them, and they will rebel much more after I die!

2 Chronicles 33:10Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and the people of Judah, but they paid no attention.

Nehemiah 9:29“You warned them that they should again obey your laws, but they became proud and stubborn, and they disobeyed your commands. They sinned by disobeying what you commanded them to do, the things that would enable them to live a good long life if they obeyed them. They stubbornly refused [IDM] to listen to you and continued sinning.

Proverbs 28:9If people do not obey [MTY] God’s laws, God ◄detests their prayers/considers that their prayers stink►.

Isaiah 1:10You leaders of Judah are as wicked as the rulers of Sodom were, and you other people in Jerusalem areas are as wicked as the people in Gomorrah were. Listen to this message from Yahweh, all of you!

Isaiah 10:5Yahweh says, “Terrible things will happen to Assyria. It is true that their army is like a rod/club [DOU] with which I punish other nations because I am very angry with those nations [DOU].

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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