Isaiah 30:9

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

Isaiah 30:9 in Other Translations

9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

9 For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD;

9 that these people are stubborn rebels who refuse to pay attention to the LORD ’s instructions.

9 Because this is a rebel generation, a people who lie, A people unwilling to listen to anything God tells them.

9 They are a rebellious people, deceptive children, children who do not obey the Lord's instruction.

Isaiah 30:9 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 30:9

That this [is] a rebellious people
This, with what follows, is what the Lord would have written and engrossed, and remain for ever; or this is a reason why he would have it, for so the words be rendered, "for", or "because, this [is] a rebellious people ^F12"; rebellious against God and his commands; they are called "rebellious children" before, ( Isaiah 30:1 ) and, as it follows, lying children;
false spurious ones, only called, not truly, the children of God, and lied when they called themselves so, and were guilty of lying also, not only to God, but to one another: children [that] will not hear the law of the Lord;
either read, or explained, at least, not so as to be obedient to it; and such must be rebellious ones, and deserve not to be called the children of God. The Targum is,

``children that like not to receive the doctrine of the law of the Lord.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (Me yk) "nam populus", Forerius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius; "quia", Pagninus, Montanus.

Isaiah 30:9 In-Context

7 to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.

8 Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.

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!”

Cross References

• 1. S Psalms 78:8; S Isaiah 1:2; S Ezekiel 2:6
• 2. Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 59:3-4
• 3. S Isaiah 1:10