Isaías 30:13

13 la calamidad caerá sobre ustedes de repente,
como una pared pandeada que explota y se cae.
En un instante se desplomará
y se derrumbará.

Isaías 30:13 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 30:13

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready
to fall
Or, "as a falling breach" ^F13; contempt of the word of God, and trusting in wickedness, rejecting the counsel of God, and placing confidence in the creature, these would be the cause of ruin; which ruin is signified by the breach of a falling wall, or by a breach in a wall, by reason of which it is in danger of falling, and is just ready to fall: swelling out in a high wall;
like a wall that bellies out and bulges, and which, when it once begins to do, suddenly falls; and the higher it is, it comes with more force, and the greater is the fall: whose breaking cometh suddenly, at an instant;
and so it is suggested, should be the ruin of this people; the high towering confidence they had in Egypt would fall with its own weight, and they with it, and be broken to pieces in a moment; and which is further illustrated by another simile.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (lpwn Urpk) "sicut ruptura cadens", Montanus, Cocceius, De Dieu. Ben Melech observes, that a breach is after the building is fallen; for the breach does not fall, but it is said on account of the end of it, or what it is at last, as in Isa. xlvii. 2. "grind meal" or "flour".

Isaías 30:13 In-Context

11 Olvídense de toda esta tristeza,
apártense de su senda estrecha.
Dejen de hablarnos acerca del
“Santo de Israel”».

12 Esta es la respuesta del Santo de Israel:
«Dado que ustedes desprecian lo que les digo
pero más bien confían en la opresión y en las mentiras,

13 la calamidad caerá sobre ustedes de repente,
como una pared pandeada que explota y se cae.
En un instante se desplomará
y se derrumbará.

14 Ustedes serán aplastados como una vasija de barro;
hechos añicos de una manera tan completa
que no habrá un pedazo lo suficientemente grande
para llevar los carbones de una hoguera
ni un poco de agua del pozo».

15 Esto dice el Señor
Soberano,
el Santo de Israel:
«Ustedes se salvarán solo si regresan a mí
y descansan en mí.
En la tranquilidad y en la confianza está su fortaleza;
pero no quisieron saber nada de esto.