Isaiah 30:8

God tells Isaiah to write this prophecy down so it stands as a lasting witness for the future. It matters because the written word will testify to God's truth when events confirm it.

Cross-references · 19

• Deut 31:22So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
• Isa 8:1Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
• Hab 2:2Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
• Deut 31:19“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
• Jer 36:2“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
• Jer 51:60Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
• Jer 36:28–32“Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
• Job 19:23–25“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
• Num 24:14Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
• Deut 4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
• Jer 23:20Yahweh’s anger shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
• 1 Tim 4:1But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• 2 Pet 3:3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
• Jude 1:18They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
• Hos 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
• Ezek 38:16and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
• Jer 48:47“Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
• Deut 31:29For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
• Isa 2:2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

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