Charles Ellicott Commentary 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 for ever and ever." — Isaiah 30:8 (ASV)

Now go, write it before them in a table. —We have previously seen this as one of Isaiah’s methods for giving special emphasis to his teaching (Isaiah 8:1). The word, we may believe, was translated into action in the presence of his astonished listeners. In some way or other, he feels sure that what he is about to say transcends the immediate occasion and has a lesson for all time that the world would not willingly let die. Others, following the Vulgate, take the verb as an imperative: “They are boasters; cease from them.” (Superbia tantum est; quiesce.)