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Isaiah 30:8

What does Isaiah 30:8 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 30:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and record it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, as a witness for ever,

Context

v.7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.

v.8This passage

v.9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 36:28

    Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

  • Jeremiah 23:20

    The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

  • Job 19:23

    Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

  • Ezekiel 38:16

    and thou shalt come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

  • Hosea 3:5

    afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear unto Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.

  • 2 Peter 3:3

    knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

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