King James Version
What Does Isaiah 30:9 Mean?
“That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:”
Context
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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. concerning: or, to her
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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: the: Heb. the latter day
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That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
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Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(9) **That this is a rebellious people.**—The words that follow were those which were thus written on the tablet. The people did not know the law of the Lord, the eternal law of right, themselves. They wished the seers, like Isaiah, to be as blind as themselves, and would fain have made the prophets tune their voice according to the time.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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