Isaiah 30:10 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 30:10

They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(v. 9 et seq.) For the people provoke to anger, and the sons are liars, sons unwilling to listen to the law of God. They say to the seers, "Do not see"; and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us pleasant words; see us errors. Depart from me the way; turn aside from me the path; let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us." It is clear that they have provoked the Lord to anger, not wanting to hear the words of Jeremiah (Jer. 43).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Cyril of Jerusalem

Catechetical Lecture 14:14 (386)

The chief priests and the Pharisees, through the agency of Pilate, sealed the tomb; but the women saw him who was risen.… The chief priests lacked understanding, but the women beheld with their own eyes. When the soldiers came into the city and told the chief priests what had happened, they said to the soldiers, "Say, his disciples came by night and stole him while we were sleeping." Well did Isaiah foretell this also, in their persons: "But tell us, and relate another error."

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

No man, professedly, wished to be deceived; but many seek a kind of teaching which is deceit; and which, if they would examine, they might know to be such (1Ki 22:13). The Jews desired success to be foretold as the issue of their league with Egypt, though ill had been announced by God's prophet as the result; this constituted the "deceits."

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
אָמְר֤וּ	'a.me.Ru	they have said	H559 →
לָֽרֹאִים֙	la.ro.'Im	to the seers	H7203 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תִרְא֔וּ	tir.'U	you must see	H7200 →
וְלַ֣חֹזִ֔ים	ve.La.cho.Zim	and to the seers	H2374 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תֶחֱזוּ־	te.che.zu-	you must see	H2372 →
לָ֖נוּ	La.nu	for us
נְכֹח֑וֹת	ne.kho.Chot	straightforwardness<es>	H5229 →
דַּבְּרוּ־	da.be.ru-	speak	H1696 →
לָ֣נוּ	La.nu	to us
חֲלָק֔וֹת	cha.la.Kot	flattering [words]	H2513 →
חֲז֖וּ	cha.Zu	see	H2372 →
מַהֲתַלּֽוֹת׃	ma.ha.ta.Lot	deception<s>	H4123 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 16:18
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
leads to
- Colossians 2:4
  I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
- Matthew 7:15
  Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
- Micah 3:5
  This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their…
- 1 Timothy 6:5
  and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.
- 2 Timothy 3:2–6
  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Through
Amos 7:13
But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”
leads to
- Amos 2:12
  “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 12:32
  And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to…
Through
Amos 2:12
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
leads to
- Amos 7:13
  But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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About Isaiah