Isaiah 30:10 (WEB)

Passage

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

Isaiah 30:9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

Isaiah 30:10 who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 30:11 Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

Isaiah 30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "tell", "seers", "prophets", "prophesy", "right", "things", and "pleasant". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "tell" and "seers", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "For it is a rebellious people lying..." into verse 11's "Get out of the way Turn away...", so "tell" and "seers" 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 "tell" and "seers" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.