What Does Isaiah 30:13 Mean in the King James?
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The break looks sudden only at the end: the wall has already been swelling around its breach.
THE MEANING
The crookedness here speaks to what you rely on while it still looks solid: its breach is already swelling. The collapse may arrive in an instant, though the strain is present before that moment. What appears high and secure can be on the verge of giving way.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What stands tall must be sound.
THE ROOT
פֶּרֶץ
perets
GROWS FROM
פרץ
Break through; burst outward.
The word for “breach” comes from a root that also means to break through or burst out. Its related word for a violent breaker-in gives the rupture a forceful edge: this is more than a surface flaw; it is an opening pushing outward until the wall gives way.
ALSO GROWS
parats: Break through; burst out.
פָּרַץ
The verb carries the active force inside the noun “breach”: a boundary is being broken through.
parits: A violent breaker-in; a marauder.
פָּרִיץ
This related word shows the root’s forceful sense of breaking through, which gives the wall’s breach more weight than a small crack.
שִׁבְרָהּ
shibrah
GROWS FROM
שבר
Break; shatter; fracture.
The final “breaking” uses a different root from “breach”: the verse moves from an opening in the wall to its shattering. The sudden collapse is the end of a process already visible in the swelling breach.
ALSO GROWS
shavar: To break or shatter.
שָׁבַר
The verb supplies the force of the wall’s final collapse.
shever: A fracture; a breakage.
שֶׁבֶר
This noun names the fracture that follows the breach, making the verse’s movement from opening to collapse clear.
THE PATTERN
A refuge can look strong until its hidden weakness becomes a breach and brings it down.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.THE THREAD
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.“The breach” here is פֶּרֶץ (perets, breach), from the same root פרץ as the breach in Isaiah 30:13. The same word holds both rupture and repair: an opening that threatens collapse can also be mended.
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