Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 30:12 in context
Isaiah 30:9–15
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For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law;
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who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
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Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
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Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
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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.
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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.”
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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,
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