It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
14. And the breaking of it shall be. When a wall has fallen, some traces of the ruin are still to be seen, and the stones of it may be applied to use, and to some extent the wall may even be rebuilt.
Write this down and engrave it, that it may stand as a witness forever. These words must outlast the present generation who reject them, shaming those who would not hear, justifying God's judgment upon them, and warning all ages that follow: here is the record of how wickedly they provoked Him before He brought the full weight of His severity upon them.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 30:8-17
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel,.... That is, their confidence in an arm of flesh, and they that place it there; and this either God shall do, or the enemy, and God by him; or rather it may he rendered impersonally, "it shall be broken"; and may refer to the wall to which the ruin of this people is...