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therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
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This perverse way of life will be like a towering, badly built wall That slowly, slowly tilts and shifts, and then one day, without warning, collapses -
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this iniquity of yours will be like a spreading breach, a bulge in a high wall whose collapse will come very suddenly.
Isaiah 30:13 In-Context
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Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”
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Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,
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this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.
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It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”
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This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.