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Isaiah, Chapter 30

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD,
“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,
And^amake an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
In order to add sin to sin;

Who proceed down to Egypt
Without consulting^bMe,
To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh
And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame
And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

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“For their princes are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

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“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,
Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.”

⁶ The^coracle concerning the beasts of the Negev.Through a land of distress and anguish,
From^dwhere come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on the^ebacks of young donkeys
And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who cannot profit them;

⁷Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have called^fher
“^gRahab who has been exterminated.”

⁸Now go, write it on a tablet before them
And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it may^hserve in the time to come
ⁱAs a witness forever.

⁹For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who^jrefuse to listen
To the^kinstruction of the LORD;

¹⁰Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions”;
And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us what is right,
Speak to us^lpleasant words,
Prophesy illusions.

¹¹“Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,
^mLet us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

¹² Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them,

¹³Therefore this iniquity will be to you
Like a breach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,

¹⁴Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,
ⁿSo ruthlessly shattered
That a sherd will not be found among its pieces
To^otake fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

¹⁵ For thus the Lord^pGOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said,“In^qrepentance and rest you will be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength.”
But you were not willing,

¹⁶And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses,”
Therefore you shall flee!
“And we will ride on swift horses,”
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

¹⁷One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;
You will flee at the threat of five,
Until you are left as a^rflag on a mountain top
And as a signal on a hill.

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Therefore the LORD^slongs to be gracious to you,
And therefore He^twaits on high to have compassion on you.
For the LORD is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who^ulong for Him.

¹⁹ ^vO people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you. ²⁰ Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. ²¹ Your ears will hear a word behind you, “^wThis is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. ²² And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to^xthem, “Be gone!”

²³ Then He will give you rain for^ythe seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be^zrich and^aaplenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. ²⁴ Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which^abhas been winnowed with shovel and fork. ²⁵ On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be^acstreams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. ²⁶ The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the LORD binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise^adHe has inflicted.

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Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a^aeremote place;
Burning is His anger and^afdense is His^agsmoke;
His lips are filled with indignation
And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

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His breath is like an overflowing torrent,
Which reaches to the neck,
To shake the nations back and forth in a^ahsieve,
And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which^aileads to ruin.

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You will have^ajsongs as in the night when you keep the festival,
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,
To go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

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And the LORD will cause^akHis voice of authority to be heard,
And the^aldescending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.

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For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified,
When He strikes with the rod.

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And every^amblow of the^anrod of punishment,
Which the LORD will lay on him,
Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres;
And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.

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For^aoTopheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
^apA pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.


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