Isaiah 30:13

so this sin will be to you 1 like a broken part ready to fall, like a bulge in a high wall 1 whose fall will happen suddenly, in an instant.” 1

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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 the Holy One of Israel says, 1 “Because you reject this word 1 and trust in oppression and deceit and lean on it, 1

14He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken; he will not spare it, 1 so that there will not be found among its pieces a shard 1 with which to scrape fire from the hearth, or to scoop up water out of the cistern. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:30The rest fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, into an inner room.

Psalms 62:3How long, all of you, will you attack a man, 1 that you may tip him over 1 like a leaning wall or a shaky fence? 1

Psalms 73:19How they become a wilderness in a moment! 1 They come to an end and are finished in awful terrors. 1

Isaiah 29:5The great number of your invaders will become like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones as chaff that passes away. 1 It will happen suddenly, in an instant. 1

Ezekiel 13:14For I will tear down the wall that you have covered with whitewash, and I will demolish it to the ground and lay bare its foundations. So it will fall, and you will be annihilated in the middle of it all. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Luke 6:49But the person who hears my words and does not obey them, he is like a man who built a house on top of the ground without a foundation. When the torrent of water flowed against that house, it immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house was complete.”

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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