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Isaiah 30 — Sermon Preparation

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.

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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.

Spurgeon 3 Alexander MacLaren 2 Calvin 1 Matthew Henry 1 John Wesley 1

“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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