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Isaiah, Chapter 30, verses 18-33

¹⁸ Therefore the LORD^s Lit waitslongs to be gracious to you, And therefore He^t Lit is on highwaits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who^u Lit waitlong for Him.	18 Isa 42:14 Isa 42:16 Isa 48:9 Jon 3:4 Jon 3:10 Pe2 3:9 Pe2 3:15 Isa 2:11 Isa 2:17 Isa 33:5 Isa 5:16 Isa 28:17 Isa 61:8 Isa 8:17 Isa 25:9 Isa 26:8 Isa 33:2
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, “^w Lit saying, “ThisThis 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^x Lit it “Go out”them, “Be gone!”	19 Isa 65:9 Eze 37:25 Eze 37:28 Isa 25:8 Isa 60:20 Isa 61:1-3 Psa 50:15 Isa 58:9 Isa 65:24 Mat 7:7-11 20 Ki1 22:27 Psa 80:5 Psa 74:9 Amo 8:11 21 Psa 25:8 Psa 25:9 Pro 3:6 Isa 35:8 Isa 35:9 Isa 42:16 Isa 29:24 22 Exo 32:2 Exo 32:4 Jdg 17:3 Jdg 17:4 Isa 46:6 Exo 32:2 Exo 32:4 Jdg 17:3 Jdg 17:4 Isa 46:6 Mat 4:10
²³ Then He will give you rain for^y Lit yourthe seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be^z Lit fatnessrich and^aa Lit fatplenteous; 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^ab Lit one winnowshas been winnowed with shovel and fork. ²⁵ On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be^ac Lit canals, streams of waterstreams 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^ad Lit of His blowHe has inflicted.	23 Psa 65:9-13 Psa 104:13 Psa 104:14 Psa 144:13 Isa 32:20 Hos 4:16 24 Mat 3:12 Luk 3:17 25 Isa 35:6 Isa 35:7 Isa 41:18 Isa 43:19 Isa 43:20 Isa 34:2 26 Isa 24:23 Isa 60:19 Isa 60:20 Rev 21:23 Rev 22:5 Isa 61:1 Isa 1:6 Isa 30:13 Isa 30:14 Deu 32:39 Job 5:18 Isa 33:24 Jer 33:6 Hos 6:1 Hos 6:2
²⁷ Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a^ae Lit distanceremote place; Burning is His anger and^af Lit heavinessdense is His^ag Lit upliftingsmoke; His lips are filled with indignation And His tongue is like a consuming fire;	27 Isa 59:19 Isa 10:17 Isa 10:5 Isa 13:5 Isa 66:14 Isa 66:15
²⁸ His breath is like an overflowing torrent, Which reaches to the neck, To shake the nations back and forth in a^ah Lit sifting of the worthlesssieve, And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which^ai Lit misleadsleads to ruin.	28 Isa 11:4 Isa 30:33 Th2 2:8 Isa 8:8 Amo 9:9 Ki2 19:28 Isa 37:29
²⁹ You will have^aj Lit the songsongs 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.
³⁰ And the LORD will cause^ak Lit the majesty of His voiceHis voice of authority to be heard, And the^al Lit descentdescending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, And in the flame of a consuming fire In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.
³¹ For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified, When He strikes with the rod.	31 Isa 11:4 Isa 10:12 Isa 14:25 Isa 31:8 Isa 10:26 Isa 11:4
³² And every^am Lit passingblow of the^an Lit staff of foundationrod 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.	32 Isa 10:24 Sa1 18:6 Jer 31:4 Eze 32:10
³³ For^aoTopheth has long been ready, Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, ^ap Lit Its pileA pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.	33 Ki2 23:10 Jer 7:31 Jer 19:6 Isa 11:4 Isa 30:28 Gen 19:24 Isa 34:9


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