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Isaiah 30 — Sermon Preparation
Judah's alliance with Egypt is condemned as rebellion; the chapter ends with healing, light, and flowing streams for those who wait for the Lord. Below is a research summary for Isaiah 30, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 33
- verses
- 492 / 295
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Isaiah 30 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אוֹר | ʼôwr | H216 | 4 | illumination, luminary |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 6 | people, tribe |
| יָעַל | yâʻal | H3276 | 3 | ascend, be valuable |
| אֵשׁ | ʼêsh | H784 | 4 | fire |
| שֶׁבֶר | sheber | H7667 | 3 | fracture, ruin |
| חָנַן | chânan | H2603 | 3 | bend, favor |
| מִצְרַיִם | Mitsrayim | H4714 | 4 | Mitsrajim |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 30, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“GOD'S WAITING AND MAN'S And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are they that wait for Him.'--ISAIAH xxx. 18. God's waiting and man's--bold and beautiful, that He and we should be represented as sharing the same attitude. I. God's waiting, 1. The first thought is--why should He wait--why does He not act at once? Because something in us hinders. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 30:18–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Isa 30:16
- Jerusalem— Isa 30:19
- Zion— Isa 30:19
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