Isaiah 30:13

13 this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

Isaiah 30:13 in Other Translations

KJV
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
ESV
13 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;
NLT
13 calamity will come upon you suddenly— like a bulging wall that bursts and falls. In an instant it will collapse and come crashing down.
MSG
13 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 -
CSB
13 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

11 Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”
12 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,
13 this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.
14 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.”
15 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.

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Nehemiah 2:17; Psalms 62:3; S Psalms 80:12
  • 2. S 1 Kings 20:30
  • 3. S Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 29:5
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