Isaiah 30:21 (GNV)

Passage

And thine eares shall heare a worde behind thee, saying, This is the way, walke ye in it, when thou turnest to the right hand, and when thou turnest to the left.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 30:19 Surely a people shall dwell in Zion, and in Ierusalem: thou shalt weepe no more: he wil certainly haue mercy vpon thee at the voyce of thy crye: when he heareth thee, he wil answere thee.

Isaiah 30:20 And when the Lord hath giuen you the bread of aduersitie, and the water of affliction, thy raine shalbe no more kept backe, but thine eyes shall see thy raine.

Isaiah 30:21 And thine eares shall heare a worde behind thee, saying, This is the way, walke ye in it, when thou turnest to the right hand, and when thou turnest to the left.

Isaiah 30:22 And ye shall pollute the couering of the images of siluer, and the riche ornament of thine images of golde, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and thou shalt say vnto it, Get thee hence.

Isaiah 30:23 Then shall hee giue raine vnto thy seede, when thou shalt sowe the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and as oyle: in that day shall thy cattell be fed in large pastures.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thine", "eares", "shall", "heare", "worde", "behind", "thee", and "saying". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thine" and "eares", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 20's "And when the Lord hath giuen you..." into verse 22's "And ye shall pollute the couering of...", so "thine" and "eares" belong inside that flow. In Isaiah context, the local focus is the Holy One of Israel, judgment and restoration, the servant of the LORD, and Zion's hope.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thine" and "eares" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.