Bible Strands
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The rebellious people of Judah address God and His messengers at a moment when they reject prophetic truth and demand comforting illusions. The words — הַשְׁבִּיתוּ (hash.Bi.tu) means "cause to cease" or "rid us of," paired with מִפָּנֵינוּ (mi.paneinu, "from before us"), forming a direct command to remove the Holy One of Israel from their presence. The thread — This refusal to submit to divine authority parallels the mind of the flesh’s hostility to God’s law in Romans 8:7 and the explicit rejection of God’s ways in Job 21:14. Why it lands — It forces the reader to examine whether they are listening to truth or demanding messages that merely confirm their own preferences.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Cross-references
- Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Job 21:14 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Isaiah 29:21 those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
- Amos 7:13 But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”
- John 15:23 Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
- Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Romans 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
- Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.