Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 30:11
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
11. Get ye out of the way, turn aside ] i.e. “Discontinue your hackneyed methods: adopt a more conciliatory tone, and do not seek to influence us by reiterated prophecies of evil.”
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease ] The meaning is not, of course, that the people disown Jehovah as the national deity, but that they repudiate Isaiah’s conception of Him as the Holy One of Israel, and the teaching based on that conception.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Get ye out of the way – Or, rather, Recede from the way; or Turn aside from the way. The words way and path are used to denote the true religion, or the true doctrines of God Mat 7:14; Mat 22:16; Joh 14:4; Act 18:26; Act 19:9, Act 19:23; 2Pe 2:15. The request here was that the true prophets would recede from the stern and true precepts of religion, and turn to the ways of falsehood and deceit.
Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us – The sense of this is, Let us hear no more of this name. We are weary of constantly hearing it, as if there was nothing else but the ceaseless repetition of the name The Holy One of Israel. It is to be remembered that the prophets spoke in this name, and often commenced their prophecies with the announcement, thus saith the Holy One of Israel. No one more frequently used this than Isaiah (see Isa 30:12, Isa 30:15; compare Isa 1:4; Isa 5:19, Isa 5:24; Isa 10:20; Isa 12:6; Isa 17:7; Isa 29:19; Isa 31:1; Isa 41:14). It is probable that a reference constantly to the fact that he was holy, was that which most troubled them. How descriptive of the feelings of sinners! How striking an illustration of the fact that they do not wish to hear of the name or laws of the Holy Lord God! And what a melancholy proof of depravity is it when people pursue such a course that they do not wish to hear of Him, and desire no more to be troubled with His name and laws!
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Out of the way in which you now walk, out of you present course of preaching unsavoury and frightful things to us.
Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us; do not trouble us with harsh and repeated messages from God, as you used to do.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
11. Depart from the true “way”(so in Act 19:9; Act 19:23)of religion.
cause . . . to ceaseLetus hear no more of His name. God’s holiness is what troublessinners most.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Get ye out of the way: turn aside out of the path,…. These two expressions mean one and the same thing; either that the prophets would go out of their usual way of threatening ruin and destruction; or that they would go out of the way of the people, and not stand in it to hinder them pursuing their own lusts and pleasures; or that they would go out of the right way, as the Targum, which is God’s way, and join with them; or, at least, connive at, and indulge them, in their ways:
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us; do not so often make mention of his name, or come to us with a “thus saith the Lord”; let us hear no more of him, or messages from him; and especially under this character of “the Holy One of Israel”, who is by nature holy, loves holiness, and requires it, and hates sin. The Targum is,
“remove far from us the word of the Holy One of Israel;”
let us hear no more of that.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
11. Depart from the way. The amount of what is stated is, that when the prophets are set aside, the Lord is also rejected and set aside, and no regard is paid to him. Wicked men pretend the contrary, for they are ashamed to acknowledge so great wickedness. But they gain nothing by it; for God wishes that we should listen to him by means of those to whom he gave injunctions to declare his will to us, and to administer the doctrine of the word. If therefore it is our duty to listen to God, if we are bound to pay him any homage, we ought to shew it by embracing his word, as it is contained in the writings of the prophets and evangelists. This ought to be carefully observed in commendation of the word; for they who set it aside act as if they denied that he is God.
Cause the Holy One of Israel to depart. Here he again points out the cause of so great wickedness, which doubles their guilt; namely, that God does not spare or flatter their vices, but acts the part of a good and skillful physician. Men desire to be flattered, and cannot patiently endure that God should threaten them. Hence it comes that men hate and reject the word. Hence proceeds the furious attack on the prophets, whose reproofs and threatenings they cannot endure; for there is no reason why men should revolt from the government of God, but because they take delight in what is wrong and crooked, and abhor the right way. Appropriately, therefore, does the Prophet join these two things, dislike of heavenly doctrine and hatred of uprightness.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(11) Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.It would seem as if the iterated utterance of this Divine name by Isaiah caused a bitterness of irritation which was not roused by the more familiar Lord, or even by Jehovah. It made men feel that they stood face to face with an infinite holiness, and this they could not bear.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Isa 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Ver. 11. Get ye out of the way. ] If that be the way which you so much insist upon, warp a little, remit of your rigour. Religiosum opertet esse, sed non religentem. Let a religious man work but not to be bound.
Cause the Holy One of Israel to depart from us.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
you out: Isa 29:21, Amo 7:13
cause: Joh 15:23, Joh 15:24, Rom 1:28, Rom 1:30, Rom 8:7, Eph 4:18
Reciprocal: Exo 15:11 – glorious Lev 20:26 – the Lord Jos 24:19 – holy 1Ki 22:13 – Behold now 2Ki 19:22 – the Holy One 2Ch 25:16 – forbear Job 6:10 – the Holy One Job 21:15 – and what Job 22:17 – Depart Psa 71:22 – O thou Psa 89:18 – Holy Psa 101:3 – them Pro 30:3 – the holy Isa 1:4 – the Holy Isa 5:19 – let the Isa 30:15 – the Holy One Isa 37:23 – the Holy One Isa 43:3 – the Holy One Isa 43:15 – the Lord Jer 5:31 – my people Jer 14:14 – I sent Dan 9:6 – have we Amo 2:11 – and Mic 2:11 – he shall Mal 2:8 – ye are Luk 15:13 – and took Rom 16:18 – by 2Ti 3:7 – learning Heb 5:2 – them 1Jo 4:5 – and Rev 3:7 – he that is holy