Isaiah 30:11

11 Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”

Isaiah 30:11 in Other Translations

11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

11 leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."

11 Forget all this gloom. Get off your narrow path. Stop telling us about your ‘Holy One of Israel.’”

11 Don't bore us with obsolete religion. That stuff means nothing to us. Quit hounding us with The Holy of Israel."

11 Get out of the way! Leave the pathway. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel."

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 For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD’s instruction.

10 They say to the seers, “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.

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.

Cross References

• 1. ver 21; Proverbs 3:6; Isaiah 35:8-9; Isaiah 48:17
• 2. S Job 21:14
• 3. S Isaiah 29:19