30. In vain. Verses 30-32 re-emphasize the thought (see 5) that God is in no way to be blamed for Judah’s revolt.
Your children. Here the children or people of Judah. The cities and communities of Judah were sometimes, as probably here, figuratively represented as mothers, and the inhabitants as the children (see Lev. 19:18; Joel 3:4-6; Zech. 9:13).
Your prophets. The men who had been sent to reprove their follies and exhort them to amend their ways (see 2 Chron. 36:15, 16; Neh. 9:26; Matt. 23:29-31; Acts 7:52). The height of this violence against God’s messengers came during the half century of Manasseh’s reign (2 Kings 21:16). Isaiah was one of the first of the prophetic martyrs to fall (PK 382; , Supplementary Material, on Isa. 1:1).