Isaiah 30:11

11 Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.'"

Isaiah 30:11 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 30:11

Get ye out of the way: turn aside out of the path
These two expressions mean one and the same thing; either that the prophets would go out of their usual way of threatening ruin and destruction; or that they would go out of the way of the people, and not stand in it to hinder them pursuing their own lusts and pleasures; or that they would go out of the right way, as the Targum, which is God's way, and join with them; or, at least, connive at, and indulge them, in their ways: cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us;
do not so often make mention of his name, or come to us with a "thus saith the Lord"; let us hear no more of him, or messages from him; and especially under this character of "the Holy One of Israel", who is by nature holy, loves holiness, and requires it, and hates sin. The Targum is,

``remove far from us the word of the Holy One of Israel;''
let us hear no more of that.

Isaiah 30:11 In-Context

9 These people are rebellious and deceitful children, children who refuse to listen to the LORD's teachings.
10 They say to the seers, 'Don't see [the future].' They say to those who have visions, 'Don't have visions that tell us what is right. Tell us what we want to hear. See illusions.
11 Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.'"
12 This is what the Holy One of Israel says: You have rejected this warning, trusted oppression and deceit, and leaned on them.
13 That is why your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.
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