Isaiah 30
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Isaiah 30:1
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"Woe to the rebellious children," declares the LORD, "Who execute a plan, but not Mine, And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, In order to add sin to sin;
Isaiah 30:2
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Who proceed down to Egypt Without consulting Me, To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 30:3
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"Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
Isaiah 30:5
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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."
Isaiah 30:6
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The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, From where {come} lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys And their treasures on camels' humps, To a people who cannot profit {them;}
Isaiah 30:7
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Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her "Rahab who has been exterminated."
Isaiah 30:8
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Now go, write it on a tablet before them And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve in the time to come As a witness forever.
Isaiah 30:9
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For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the LORD;
Isaiah 30:10
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Who 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 pleasant words, Prophesy illusions.
Isaiah 30:11
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"Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 30:12
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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,
Isaiah 30:13
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Therefore 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,
Isaiah 30:14
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Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter's jar, So ruthlessly shattered That a sherd will not be found among its pieces To take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern."
Isaiah 30:15
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For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, "In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength." But you were not willing,
Isaiah 30:16
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And 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.
Isaiah 30:17
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One thousand {will flee} at the threat of one {man;} You will flee at the threat of five, Until you are left as a flag on a mountain top And as a signal on a hill.
Isaiah 30:18
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Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.
Isaiah 30:19
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O 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.
Isaiah 30:20
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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.
Isaiah 30:21
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Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
Isaiah 30:22
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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 them, "Be gone!"
Isaiah 30:23
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Then He will give {you} rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread {from} the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.
Isaiah 30:24
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Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
Isaiah 30:25
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On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Isaiah 30:26
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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 He has inflicted.
Isaiah 30:27
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Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a remote place; Burning is His anger and dense is {His} smoke; His lips are filled with indignation And His tongue is like a consuming fire;
Isaiah 30:28
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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 sieve, And to {put} in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.
Isaiah 30:29
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You will have songs 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.
Isaiah 30:30
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And the LORD will cause His voice of authority to be heard, And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, And {in} the flame of a consuming fire In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.
Isaiah 30:31
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For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified, {When} He strikes with the rod.
Isaiah 30:32
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And every blow of the rod 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.
Isaiah 30:33
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For (I.e. the place of human sacrifice to Molech) Topheth has long been ready, Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, A pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.
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