Isaiah 30
30
The Warning of Judah
1Woe to the rebellious children, # Isa 1:2
says the Lord,
who take counsel, but not from Me, # Isa 29:15
and make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
in order to add sin to sin;
2they walk down to Egypt
and have not asked from My mouth, # Nu 27:21
to strengthen themselves in the safety of Pharaoh # Isa 36:6
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3Therefore the safety of Pharaoh shall be your shame
and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation. # Isa 20:5
4For their princes were at Zoan, # Isa 19:11
and their ambassadors came to Hanes.
5They all will be ashamed # Jer 2:36
of a people who cannot profit them,
who are not a help or profit, # Isa 30:7
but a shame and also a reproach.
6The burden of the beasts of the Negev.
Through a land of trouble and anguish, # Jer 11:4
from which comes the lioness and lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, # Nu 21:6–7; Dt 8:15; Isa 6:2; 14:29
they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who shall not profit them.
7For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.
Therefore, I have called her,
“Rahab who has been exterminated.”
8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, # Isa 8:1; Hab 2:2
and note it in a book,
that it may serve in the time to come
as a witness forever;
9for this is a rebellious people, # Isa 30:1 lying children,
children who refuse to listen to the law of the Lord;
10they say to the seers,
“You must not see visions,”
and to the prophets,
“You must not prophesy to us right things; # Jer 11:21; Am 7:13
speak to us pleasant things,
prophesy illusions.
11Get out of the way,
turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more
about the Holy One of Israel.”
12Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel:
Because you despise this word # Isa 5:24
and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and rely on them,
13therefore this iniquity shall be to you
as a breach ready to fall, swelling up in a high wall, # 1Ki 20:30; Ps 62:3
whose collapse comes suddenly, in an instant.
14He shall break it as the breaking of the potter’s vessel
that is broken in pieces; # Ps 2:9; Jer 19:10–11
He shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shard
to take fire from the hearth
or with which to take water out of a cistern.
15For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. # Isa 7:4; 32:17
Yet you were not willing,
16and you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; # Isa 31:1
therefore you shall flee.
“And we will ride on swift horses”;
therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
17One thousand shall flee
at the threat of one man; # Lev 26:8, 36
at the threat of five
you shall flee
until you are left
as a flag on the top of a mountain
and as a banner on a hill.
God’s Promise to Zion
18Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you,
and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you; # Isa 25:9; 2Pe 3:9
for the Lord is a God of justice;
how blessed are all who long for Him.
19O people in Zion, inhabitants in Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer you. # Ps 50:15; Isa 58:9 20Though the Lord has given you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, # 1Ki 22:27 yet He, your Teacher, will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. # Ps 74:9 21Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” # Ps 25:8–9; Isa 35:8–9 whenever you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left. 22You shall defile also your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molded images ornamented with gold. # Jdg 17:3–4; Isa 46:6 You shall scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”
23Then He shall give you rain for the seed which you shall sow in the ground and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures. # Ps 65:9–13; Isa 32:20 24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that work the ground shall eat cured fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and fork. 25There shall be on every high mountain and on every high hill rivers and streams of waters # Isa 35:6–7; 43:19–20 in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, # Isa 60:19–20 as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the breach of His people and heals the wound from His blow. # Dt 32:39
Judgment on Assyria
27Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
burning with His anger, and its burden is heavy;
His lips are full of indignation,
and His tongue as a devouring fire.
28And His breath # Isa 11:4 is as an overflowing stream
which reaches to the middle of the neck, # Isa 8:8
to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity;
and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to err.
29You shall have songs,
as in the night when a festival is kept,
and gladness of heart,
as when one goes with a flute
to come into the mountain of the Lord, # Ps 42:4; Isa 2:3
to the Mighty One of Israel.
30The Lord shall cause His glorious voice to be heard,
and shall show the descending of His arm
with the indignation of His anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire,
with scattering, and cloudburst, and hailstones. # Jos 10:11; Ps 18:13–14
31For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall be beaten down
when He strikes with a rod. # Isa 9:4; 10:5
32And every blow of the rod of punishment
which the Lord shall lay on him
shall be with tambourines and harps;
and in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them. # Isa 2:19; 11:15
33For Topheth # 2Ki 23:10; Jer 7:32; 19:6 has been long prepared,
indeed, for the king it has been prepared.
He has made it deep and large,
a pile of fire with much wood;
the breath of the Lord,
like a stream of brimstone,
kindles it.
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Isaiah 30
30
1Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: 2that walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes. 5They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, that are not an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
8Now 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. 9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 10which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon; 13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the cistern. 15For thus said the Lord GOD the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not, 16but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgement; blessed are all they that wait for him. 19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. 20And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left. 22And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23And he shall give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures, 24the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 25And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire: 28and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples. 29Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. 30And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. 31For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be broken in pieces, which smote with a rod. 32And every stroke of the appointed staff, which the LORD shall lay upon him, shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with them. 33For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
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