Isaiah 30

The Futility of Reliance on Egypt

30Oh, rebellious children, says the LORD, who carry out a plan, but not mine; who make an alliance, but against my will, adding sin to sin;H1945H5637H1121H5002H3068H6213H6098H5258H4541H7307H5595H2403H24032who set out to go down to Egypt without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt;H1980H3381H4714H7592H6310H5810H4581H6547H2620H6738H47143Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.H4581H6547H1322H2622H6738H4714H36394For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,H8269H6814H4397H5060H26095everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.H3001H5971H3276H5828H3276H1322H27816An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and roaring lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.H4853H929H5045H776H6869H6695H3833H3918H660H8314H5774H8314H5375H2428H3802H5895H214H1707H1581H5971H32767For Egypt's help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her, "Rahab who sits still."H4714H5826H1892H7385H7121H2063H1992H7293H7674

A Rebellious People

8Go now, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.H935H3789H3871H2710H5612H3117H314H5704H5703H57699For they are a rebellious people, faithless children, children who will not hear the instruction of the LORD;H4805H5971H3586H1121H1121H14H8085H8451H306810who say to the seers, "Do not see"; and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,H559H7200H7200H2374H2372H5229H1696H2513H2372H412311leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."H5493H1870H5186H734H6918H3478H7673H644012Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you reject this word, and put your trust in oppression and deceit, and rely on them;H559H6918H3478H3988H1697H982H6233H3868H817213therefore this iniquity shall become for you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;H5771H6556H5307H1158H7682H2346H7667H935H6597H662114its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found for taking fire from the hearth, or dipping water out of the cistern.H7665H7667H3335H5035H3807H2550H4672H4386H2789H2846H784H3344H2834H4325H136015For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. But you refusedH559H136H3069H6918H3478H7729H5183H3467H8252H985H1369H1416and said, "No! We will flee upon horses"—therefore you shall flee! and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"—therefore your pursuers shall be swift!H559H5127H5483H5127H7392H7031H7291H704317A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.H259H505H6440H1606H259H6440H1606H2568H5127H3498H8650H7218H2022H5251H1389

God’s Promise to Zion

18Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.H3068H2442H2603H7311H7355H3068H430H4941H835H244219Truly, O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.H5971H3427H6726H3389H1058H1058H2603H2603H6963H2199H8085H603020Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.H136H5414H3899H6862H4325H3906H3384H3670H5869H7200H338421And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."H241H8085H1697H310H559H1870H3212H541H804122Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like filthy rags; you will say to them, "Away with you!"H2930H6826H6456H3701H642H4541H2091H2219H1739H559H331823He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures;H5414H4306H2233H2232H127H3899H8393H127H1879H8082H3117H4735H7462H7337H373324and the oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat silage, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.H504H5895H5647H127H398H2548H1098H2219H7371H421425On every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water—on a day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.H1364H2022H5375H1389H6388H2988H4325H3117H7227H2027H4026H530726Moreover 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 the LORD binds up the injuries of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.H216H3842H216H2535H216H2535H7659H216H7651H3117H3117H3068H2280H7667H5971H7495H4273H4347

Judgment on Assyria

27See, the name of the LORD comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;H8034H3068H935H4801H1197H639H4858H3514H8193H4390H2195H3956H398H78428his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck—to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them astray.H7307H7857H5158H2673H6677H5130H1471H5299H7723H7448H3895H5971H858229You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.H7892H3915H6942H2282H6942H8057H3824H1980H2485H935H2022H3068H6697H347830And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.H3068H1935H6963H8085H7200H5183H2220H2197H639H3851H398H784H5311H2230H68H125931The Assyrian will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he strikes with his rod.H6963H3068H804H2865H5221H762632And every stroke of the staff of punishment that the LORD lays upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with him.H3605H4145H4294H4569H3068H5117H8596H3658H4421H8573H389833For his burning place has long been prepared; truly it is made ready for the king, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.H8613H6186H865H4428H3559H6009H7337H4071H784H7235H6086H5397H3068H5158H1614H1197