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Isaiah 30:8-11

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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.

Isaiah 30:8-11 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 30:8

Theological / Devotional

Note it in a book. The truth Isaiah was about to utter was fraught with importance far beyond the immediate occasion. In it was a lesson for generations yet to come (see 1 Cor. 10:11). Rahab (see on Isa. 30:7), the dragon (see Isa. 51:9; see on Job 9:13), represented none other than Satan, the great deceiver (Rev. 12:9). Those who forsook the Lord and went to Egypt for help were actually turning to Satan, and in so doing they sought in vain for succor, for Satan was a defeated foe, who could not even save himself. The message to be written on the tablet follows immediately.

For the time to come. The Targums, the Syriac, and the Vulgate read, “for a witness.”

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