Add parallel Print Page Options

14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,
so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged.[a]
Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough[b]
to scoop a hot coal from a fire[c]
or to skim off water from a cistern.”[d]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:14 tn Heb “Its shattering is like the shattering of a jug of [i.e., “made by”] potters, [so] shattered one cannot save [any of it].”
  2. Isaiah 30:14 tn The words “large enough” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
  3. Isaiah 30:14 tn Heb “to remove fire from the place of kindling.”
  4. Isaiah 30:14 tn On the meaning of גֶבֶא (geveh, “cistern”) see HALOT 170 s.v.