Isaiah 30:20
Good News Translation
The Lord will make you go through hard times, but he himself will be there to teach you, and you will not have to search for him any more.

New Revised Standard Version
Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord has given you trouble and sorrow as your food and drink. But now you will again see the Lord, your teacher, and he will guide you.

New American Bible
The Lord will give you bread in adversity and water in affliction. No longer will your Teacher hide himself, but with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.

the bread

Deuteronomy 16:3 Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life.

1 Kings 22:27 And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace.

2 Chronicles 18:26 And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and give him bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.

Psalm 30:5 For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.

Psalm 80:5 How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Psalm 102:9 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,

Ezekiel 4:13-17 And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out. . . .

Ezekiel 24:22,23 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners. . . .

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

affliction.

Psalm 74:9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

Amos 8:11,12 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day. . . .

Matthew 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.

Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors:

Context
God's Mercies
19For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping thou shalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy cry, as soon as he shall hear, he will answer thee. 20And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.21And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.…
Cross References
1 Kings 22:27
And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace.

Psalm 74:9
Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

Psalm 80:5
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Isaiah 28:9
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.

Amos 8:11
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.

Isaiah 30:19
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