Isaiah 30:16

You said, 'No, 1 for we will flee on horses,' so you will flee; 1 and, 'We will ride upon swift horses,' so those who pursue you will be swift. 1

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In The King James Version

But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

In Context

15For this is what the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel says, 1 “In returning and resting you will be saved; in quietness and in trust will be your strength. 1 But you were not willing. 1

17One thousand will flee at the threat of one; 1 at the threat of five you will flee 1 until your remnant will be like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, or like a flag on a hill.” 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:49Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle flies to its victim, a nation whose language you do not understand;

Job 39:11Will you trust him because his strength is great? 1 Will you leave your work to him to do? 1

Psalms 147:10He finds no delight in the strength of a horse, 1 he takes no pleasure in the strong legs of a man. 1

Isaiah 10:28The enemy has come to Aiath 1 and has passed through Migron; at Michmash he has stored his provisions. 1

Isaiah 31:3Egypt is a man and not God, their horses flesh and not spirit. 1 When Yahweh reaches out with his hand, both the one who helps will stumble, and the one who is helped will fall; both will perish together. 1

Jeremiah 52:7Then the city was broken into, and all the fighting men fled and went out of the city at night by the way of the gate that was between the two walls, by the king's garden, although the Chaldeans were all around the city. So they went in the direction of the Arabah.

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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