Is 30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, / Declares Jehovah, / Who devise counsel, but not of Me, / And who make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, / In order to add / Sin upon sin;
Is 30:2 Who go down to Egypt, / Yet do not ask of My mouth, / To take refuge in the refuge of Pharaoh, / And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt.
Is 30:3 Therefore the refuge of Pharaoh will be your shame, / And shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
Is 30:4 For their princes are at Zoan, / And their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
Is 30:5 All are ashamed / Of a people that cannot profit them, / Nor be a help or profit to them, / But rather a shame and also a reproach.
Is 30:6 The burden concerning the beasts of the Negev: / Through the land of distress and anguish, / From which come lioness and lion, / Viper and flying fiery serpent, / They carry their riches upon young donkeys’ backs / And their treasures upon camels’ humps / To a people that cannot profit them;
Is 30:7 For Egypt helps in a vain and empty way. / Therefore I call her / Rahab, who sits still.
Is 30:8 Go now; write it on a tablet before them, / And inscribe it on a scroll, / That it may be, for the time to come, / As a witness forever.
Is 30:9 For this is a rebellious people, / False children, / Children who refuse to hear / The instruction of Jehovah;
Is 30:10 Who say to those who see, Do not see; / And to those who have visions, Do not give us true visions; / Speak pleasant things to us; / Give us illusions as your visions;
Is 30:11 Get out of the way; / Turn aside from the path; / Cause the Holy One of Israel / To cease from before us.
Is 30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, / Because you despise this word / And trust in oppression and guile, / And rely on them,
Is 30:13 Therefore this iniquity / Will be to you / Like a breach ready to fall, / Sticking out on a high wall, / Whose crashing comes / In an instant, suddenly.
Is 30:14 And its crashing will be like the crashing of the potters’ vessel: / Crushed — he will not spare; / And there will not be found / Among the crushed pieces a shard / With which to take fire from the hearth / Or to draw water from the cistern.
Is 30:15 For thus says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, / In returning and rest you will be saved; / In quietness and in trust will be your strength; / But you were not willing,
Is 30:16 And said, No, for we will flee on horses; / Therefore you will flee. / And, We will ride upon the swift; / Therefore those who chase you will be swift.
Is 30:17 One thousand will flee at the rebuke of one; / At the rebuke of five you will flee, / Until you are left / Like a bare mast upon a mountaintop / And a standard on a hill.
Is 30:18 And therefore Jehovah waits to be gracious to you, / And therefore He remains on high to have compassion on you; / For Jehovah is a God of justice; / Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Is 30:19 For a people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem — / You will weep no more; / He will be most gracious to you at the sound of your cry; / When He hears it, He will answer you.
Is 30:20 And though the Lord has given you / The bread of adversity and the water of oppression, / Your Teacher will no longer hide Himself in a corner, / But your eyes will see your Teacher.
Is 30:21 And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, / This is the way, walk in it, / When you turn to the right or turn to the left.
Is 30:22 And you will defile the silver covering of your graven images / And the gold plating of your molten idols; / You will scatter them like some dirty thing; / You will say to it, Go away!
Is 30:23 Then He will give rain for your seed, / Which you will sow in the ground, / And the bread of the increase of the ground; / And it will be fat and plenteous. / Your livestock will feed in that day / In a vast pasture.
Is 30:24 And the oxen and donkeys that work the ground / Will eat salted fodder that has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
Is 30:25 And upon every high mountain / And upon every prominent hill / There will be brooks and streams of water / In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Is 30:26 And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, / And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, / On the day when Jehovah binds up the breach of His people / And heals the wound left from His stroke.
Is 30:27 Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from a distance, / Burning with His anger and heavy with smoke; / His lips are full of indignation, / And His tongue is like a devouring fire;
Is 30:28 His breath, like an overflowing stream, / Reaches up to the neck, / To sift the nations with the sieve of nothingness; / And a bridle that leads them to err is in the jaws of the peoples.
Is 30:29 You will have a song / As in the night when the feast is sanctified, / And gladness of heart as when one marches to the flute / To go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
Is 30:30 And Jehovah will cause the majesty of His voice to be heard / And the descending of His arm to be seen, / With the blasting of anger and the flame of devouring fire, / In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.
Is 30:31 For at the voice of Jehovah, Assyria will be dismayed; / With a staff He will strike.
Is 30:32 And every pass of the appointed rod, / Which Jehovah will lay upon him, / Will be with tambourines and harps; / And in battles of brandishing weapons He will fight against them.
Is 30:33 For Topheth has been arranged since long ago; / Indeed it has been prepared for the king; / He made it deep; He made it large. / The pile in it is of fire and much wood; / The breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, / Sets it on fire.
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