Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
Parallel translations
- WEB Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
- KJV Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
- NKJV Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us.”
- NASB “Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, Stop speaking before us about the Holy One of Israel!”
- NLT Forget all this gloom. Get off your narrow path. Stop telling us about your ‘Holy One of Israel.’”
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Quick answer
They demand the prophets get out of the way and silence the Holy One of Israel before them. It matters because it is open rebellion against God's authority.
Overview
The people want God Himself removed from their presence so they can pursue their plans unchallenged. Their request to 'cause the Holy One of Israel to cease' reveals the depth of their rejection of His holiness and word. Such defiance shows why judgment is just, and why grace through Christ is the only hope for hearts hostile to God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Isa 29:21those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
- Rom 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
- John 15:23–24Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
- Amos 7:13But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”
- Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Eph 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
- Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
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