Isaiah 30 · Verse 29

Isaiah 30:29

Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isaiah 30:29, King James Version

Isaiah 30:29 in other translations

BSBYou will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
WEBYou will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to the LORD’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.
ASVYe shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
YLTSinging is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.
DARBYYe shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
BBEYou will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.
WebsterYe shall have a song, as in the night, when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come upon the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

What does Isaiah 30:29 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
29. the night ... solemnity--As in the passover night ye celebrate your deliverance from Egypt, so shall ye celebrate your rescue from Assyrian bondage. Translate, "the solemnity" (Ex 12:42). goeth with a pipe--or flute. They used to go up to Jerusalem ("the mountain of the Lord," Zion) at the three feasts with music and gladness (De 16:16; Ezr 2:65; Psa 122:1-4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 30:27-33

God curbs and restrains from doing mischief. With a word he guides his people into the right way, but with a bridle he turns his enemies upon their own ruin. Here, in threatening the ruin of Sennacherib's army, the prophet points at the final and everlasting destruction of all impenitent sinners. Tophet was a valley near Jerusalem, where fires were continually burning to destroy things that were hurtful and…

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Isaiah 30:29 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַשִּׁיר֙ha.Shir<the> songH7892
יִֽהְיֶ֣הyih.Yehit will belongH1961
לָכֶ֔םla.Khemto you
כְּלֵ֖ילke.Leillike a night ofH3915
הִתְקַדֶּשׁ\־hit.ka.desh-being consecrated ofH6942
חָ֑גChaga festivalH2282
וְשִׂמְחַ֣תve.sim.Chatand gladness ofH8057
לֵבָ֗בle.VavheartH3824
כַּֽהוֹלֵךְ֙ka.ho.leKhlike <the> [one who] walksH1980
בֶּֽחָלִ֔ילbe.cha.Lilwith <the> fluteH2485
לָב֥וֹאla.Vo'to goH935
בְהַר\־ve.har-on [the] mountain ofH2022
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֶל\־'el-toH413
צ֥וּרtzur[the] rock ofH6697
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

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Cross references for Isaiah 30:29

  • Psalms 42:4

    When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

  • Psalms 95:1-2

    O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

  • Exodus 15:1-21

    Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. …

  • Revelation 15:3

    And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

  • Matthew 26:30

    And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

  • Deuteronomy 32:4

    He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

  • Psalms 81:1-4

    To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

  • Isaiah 26:4

    Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:

  • Deuteronomy 16:6

    But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

  • Isaiah 2:3

    And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

  • Jeremiah 19:1-7

    Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; …

  • Isaiah 12:1

    And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ye shall.
12:1; 26:1; Ex 15:1-21; 2Ch 20:27,28; Ps 32:7; Jer 33:11; Re 15:3
Jer 19:1-7
in the night.
Le 23:32; De 16:6,14; Ps 42:4; 81:1-4; Mt 26:30
with a pipe.
1Ch 13:7,8; Ps 42:4; 95:1,2; 150:3-5
the mountain.
2:3
mighty One. Heb. Rock.
26:4; De 32:4,31; Ps 18:31

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Context

  • Isaiah 30:28

    And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

  • Isaiah 30:29

    Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.

  • Isaiah 30:30

    And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

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Isaiah 30:29 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Vosotros tendréis canción, como en noche en que se celebra pascua; y alegría de corazón, como el que va con flauta para venir al monte de Jehová, al Fuerte de Israel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Il y aura pour vous un chant comme dans la nuit où l’on sanctifie une fête, et une joie de cœur comme a celui qui va avec une flûte pour se rendre à la montagne de l’ Éternel, vers le rocher d’Israël.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Gesang werdet ihr haben wie in der Nacht, da das Fest geweiht wird, und Freude des Herzens gleich denen, die unter Flötenspiel hinziehen, um zu kommen auf den Berg Jehovas, zum Felsen Israels.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Canticum erit vobis sicut nox sanctificatæ solemnitatis, et lætitia cordis sicut qui pergit cum tibia, ut intret in montem Domini ad Fortem Israël.