Isaiah 30:6

4 For his princes were at ^aZoan,
And his ambassadors came to Hanes.

5 ^aThey were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them,
Or be help or benefit,
But a shame and also a reproach.”

6 ^aThe¹ burden against the beasts of the South.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
From which came the lioness and lion,
^bThe viper and fiery flying serpent,
They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
And their treasures on the humps of camels,
To a people who shall not profit;

7 ^aFor the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.
Therefore I have called her
Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.

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8 Now go, ^awrite it before them on a tablet,
And note it on a scroll,
That it may be for time to come,
Forever and ever:

9 That ^athis is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;

10 ^aWho say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
^bSpeak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.

11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”

12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
“Because you ^adespise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
^aLike a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking ^bcomes suddenly, in an instant.

14 And ^aHe shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
¹A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.”

15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
^a“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
^bBut you would not,

16 And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”—
Therefore you shall flee!
And, “We will ride on swift horses”—
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 30:6

The burden - massa seems here to be taken in its proper sense; the load, not the oracle. The same subject is continued; and there seems to be no place here for a new title to a distinct prophecy.

Does not burden of the beasts of the South in this place relate to the presents sent by Hoshea king of Israel to the South - to Egypt, which lay south of Judea, to engage the Egyptians to succor him against the king of Assyria?

Into the land of trouble and anguish "Through a land of distress and difficulty" - The same deserts are here spoken of which the Israelites passed through when they came out of Egypt, which Moses describes, Deuteronomy 8:15, as "that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought; where there was no water. "And which was designed to be a kind of barrier between them and Egypt, of which the Lord had said, "Ye shall henceforth return no more that way," Deuteronomy 17:16.

Shall not profit them - A MS. adds in the margin the word lamo , them, which seems to have been lost out of the text: it is authorized by the Septuagint and Vulgate.

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