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Isaiah 30:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.” "
Isaiah 30:14
Verse in Context
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12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
15 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
16 but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
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Isaiah 30:1
"“Woe to the rebellious children”, says the LORD, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;"
Isaiah 30:2
"who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!"
Isaiah 30:3
"Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion."
Isaiah 30:4
"For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes."
Isaiah 30:5
"They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”"
Isaiah 30:6
"The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people."
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