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Isaiah 30:21 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 30 · verse 21
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.Isaiah 30:21 · King James Version
What Isaiah 30:21 means
Behind thee is the odd detail; the voice comes after you've started moving, not before. The guidance arrives at the turning, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Isaiah is writing to people who had been asking everybody but God.
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Isaiah 30:21 in context
19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 32:8
- Proverbs 3:5-6
- Isaiah 58:11
- Isaiah 42:16
- Deuteronomy 5:32
- Isaiah 35:8-9
- Psalms 143:8-10
- Jeremiah 6:16
Key words (Strong's)
- behindʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
- earsʼôzenbroadnessH241 →
- hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- worddâbâra wordH1697 →
- handʼâmanto take the right hand roadH541 →
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The closing words of the foregoing paragraph (You shall be left as a beacon upon a mountain) some understand as a promise that a remnant of them should be reserved as monuments of mercy; and here the prophet tells them what good times should succeed these calamities.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-26