Isaiah 30:1

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הוֹי בָּנִים סוֹרְרִים נְאֻם־יְהוָה לַעֲשׂוֹת עֵצָה וְלֹא מִנִּי וְלִנְסֹךְ מַסֵּכָה וְלֹא רוּחִי לְמַעַן סְפוֹת חַטָּאת עַל־חַטָּאת׃

Transliteration

Hōy bānîm sōrerîm neʾum-Yhwh to do ʿēṣâ and not from me, and to pour out massēkâ and not [of] my rûaḥ, for the sake of adding ḥaṭṭāʾt upon ḥaṭṭāʾt.

Grammar Details

• *Hōy*: interjection - woe/alas
• *bānîm*: masculine plural construct - sons/children
• *sōrerîm*: qal participle masculine plural - rebellious/stubborn ones
• *neʾum*: construct noun - utterance/declaration of
• *Yhwh*: divine name - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʿēṣâ*: feminine singular noun - counsel/plan/advice
• *massēkâ*: feminine singular noun - molten image/libation
• *rûaḥ*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my spirit/breath
• *ḥaṭṭāʾt*: feminine singular noun - sin/offense

Word Meanings

• *Hōy*: woe/alas/ah
• *bānîm*: sons/children/descendants
• *sōrerîm*: rebellious/stubborn/defiant
• *neʾum*: utterance/declaration/oracle
• *ʿēṣâ*: counsel/plan/advice/design
• *massēkâ*: molten image/cast idol/libation
• *rûaḥ*: spirit/breath/wind
• *ḥaṭṭāʾt*: sin/offense/punishment for sin

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Isa 29:15 : 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
• Isa 30:9 : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
• Isa 65:2 : 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
• Jer 4:17 : 17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
• Jer 5:23 : 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
• Ezek 2:3 : 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
• Ezek 3:9 : 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
• Ezek 12:2-3 : 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
• Hos 4:10-12 : 10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit wredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. 11 Wredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of wredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a wring from under their God.
• Hos 7:13 : 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: tugh I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
• Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
• 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; 14 And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
• Ps 61:4 : 4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
• Ps 91:1-4 : 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
• Isa 32:2 : 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
• Num 32:14 : 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
• Deut 9:7 : 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilrness: from the day that thou didst part out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
• Deut 9:24 : 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
• Deut 29:19 : 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
• Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• Isa 4:5 : 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
• Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
• Isa 8:12 : 12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
• Isa 8:19 : 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
• Isa 28:15 : 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
• Isa 28:20 : 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
• 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
• Hos 13:2 : 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
• Ezek 3:26-27 : 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.