Isaiah 30:8

Now, enter—Write it upon a tablet before them And upon a scroll, inscribe it,—That it may serve for a later day, For futurity, unto times age-abiding:—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

7But, the Egyptians, with vanity and emptiness, would help,—Therefore have I proclaimed concerning this, Insolent, they sit still!

9That it is, a rebellious people, Sons apt at deceiving,—Sons unwilling to hear the law of Yahweh:

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Cross References

Numbers 24:14Now, therefore, behold me! going to my own people,—Come now! let me advise thee, what this people shall do unto thy people in the after-part of the days.

Deuteronomy 31:19Now, therefore write ye for you this Song, and teach it unto the sons of Israel put it in their mouths,—that this Song may become for me a witness against the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:29For I know that after my death, ye will break faith, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you,—and calamity will befall you in the afterpart of the days, because ye will do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him with the work of your own hands.

Isaiah 2:2But it shall come to pass, in the afterpart of the days, That the mountain of the house of Yahweh Shall be, set up, as the head of the mountains, And be exalted above the hills,—And all the nations, shall stream thereunto;

Jeremiah 23:20The anger of Yahweh, wilt not return, Until he hath executed nor Until he hath established The purposes of his heart,—In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it perfectly.

Jeremiah 36:4So Jeremiah called Baruch, son of Neriah,—and Baruch wrote, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of Yahweh which he had spoken unto him upon a scroll.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:2-8

The Foolish Confidence of Judah. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord , that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and… Read the whole commentary →

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