King James Version
Isaiah 30:13 in the King James Version says “Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh su...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 30:13 · KJV
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: oppression: or, fraud
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.
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. the potters': Heb. the bottle of potters
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“ready to fall”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
“swelling out”
H1158to gush over, i.e., to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
“in a high”
H7682to be (causatively, make) lofty, especially inaccessible; by implication, safe, strong; used literally and figuratively
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“at an instant”
H6621a wink, i.e., moment (used only [with or without preposition] adverbially, quickly or unexpectedly)
“whose breaking”
H7667a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
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