Isaías 30:12

12 Así dice el Santo de Israel:«Ustedes han rechazado esta palabra;han confiado en la opresión y en la perversidad,y se han apoyado en ellas.

Isaías 30:12 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 30:12

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel
The prophet introduces his message with the phrase they objected to: ministers of the word must not seek to please men, nor should they be deterred from the use of phrases, because disliked by natural men: as, in our days, men do not love to hear the name of Christ so often mentioned, or his Gospel, or the glorious truths of it; but the use of them should not be left off on that account, but rather they should be the more inculcated, as we find this phrase was; see ( Isaiah 30:15 ) : Because ye despise this word;
either this name of the Lord, "the Holy One of Israel"; or this prophecy that was delivered unto them, which reproved them for their confidence in Egypt, and exhorted them to sit still at home, and trust in the Lord; but instead of that they trusted in what was very bad, as follows: but trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon;
either in oppressors, and perverse persons, as the Egyptians were; or in their wealth, got by oppression, rapine, and fraud, which they carried to Egypt, and on which they depended for help and relief; and in that perverse disposition of mind, contradicting the Lord speaking by his prophets, resolving to take their own way, not doubting but that they should have success.

Isaías 30:12 In-Context

10 A los videntes les dicen:«¡No tengan más visiones!»,y a los profetas:«¡No nos sigan profetizando la verdad!Dígannos cosas agradables,profeticen ilusiones.

11 ¡Apártense del camino,retírense de esta senda,y dejen de enfrentarnoscon el Santo de Israel!»

12 Así dice el Santo de Israel:«Ustedes han rechazado esta palabra;han confiado en la opresión y en la perversidad,y se han apoyado en ellas.

13 Por eso su iniquidad se alzará frente a ustedescomo un muro alto y agrietado,a punto de derrumbarse:¡de repente, en un instante, se desplomará!

14 Su iniquidad quedará hecha pedazos,hecha añicos sin piedad, como vasija de barro:ni uno solo de sus pedazos servirápara sacar brasas del fuegoni agua de una cisterna».