Isaiah 30:11

The people's command to the seers 'get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us' represents the most explicit rejection of prophetic authority in all Isaiah — the audience actively suppressing the divine title that defines Isaiah's entire theological project. The title 'Holy One of Israel' (Qedosh Yisrael) occurs twenty-five times in Isaiah but rarely elsewhere, constituting his signature name for God; its suppression here is therefore a rejection of the prophet's entire theology. The sociological dynamic mirrors that of Amos 7:10-13 where Amaziah tells Amos to prophesy elsewhere — institutional religion silencing the prophetic voice it finds disruptive. The verse has been applied in Christian contexts to critiques of 'comfortable Christianity' that resists the disruptive holy presence of God.