Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall… The best translation seems to be: "Therefore this guilt shall be to you as a rent descending (literally, "falling") (and) bulging out in a high wall, whose crash comes," etc. The slight beginnings of transgression, its inevitable tendency to gravitate more and more from the moral perpendicular, till a critical point is reached, then the suddenness of the final catastrophe, — are vividly expressed by this magnificent simile. Comp. Psalm 62:3. (Prof. J. Skinner, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. |
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