Isaiah 30

Judah Warned against Egyptian Alliance

30WOE TO the rebellious children, says the Lord, who take counsel {and} carry out a plan, but not Mine, and who make a league {and} pour out a drink offering, but not of My Spirit, thus adding sin to sin;H1945H5637H1121H5002H3068H6213H6098H5258H4541H7307H5595H2403H24032Who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked Me--to flee to the stronghold of Pharaoh {and} to strengthen themselves in his strength and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!H1980H3381H4714H7592H6310H5810H4581H6547H2620H6738H47143Therefore shall the strength {and} protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt be to your humiliation {and} confusion.H4581H6547H1322H2622H6738H4714H36394For though [Pharaoh's] officials are at Zoan and his ambassadors arrive at Hanes [in Egypt],H8269H6814H4397H5060H26095Yet will all be ashamed because of a people [the Egyptians] who cannot profit them, who are not a help or benefit, but a shame and disgrace.H3001H5971H3276H5828H3276H1322H27816A mournful, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning the beasts of the South (the Negeb): Oh, the heavy burden, the load of treasures going to Egypt! Through a land of trouble and anguish, in which are lioness and lion, viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that will not {and} cannot profit them.H4853H929H5045H776H6869H6695H3833H3918H660H8314H5774H8314H5375H2428H3802H5895H214H1707H1581H5971H32767For Egypt's help is worthless and toward no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.H4714H5826H1892H7385H7121H2063H1992H7293H76748Now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be as a witness for the time to come forevermore.H935H3789H3871H2710H5612H3117H314H5704H5703H57699For this is a rebellious people, faithless {and} lying sons, children who will not hear the law {and} instruction of the Lord;H4805H5971H3586H1121H1121H14H8085H8451H306810Who [virtually] say to the seers [by their conduct], See not! and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us what is right! Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceitful illusions.H559H7200H7200H2374H2372H5229H1696H2513H2372H412311Get out of the true way, turn aside out of the path, cease holding up before us the Holy One of Israel.H5493H1870H5186H734H6918H3478H7673H644012Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise {and} spurn this [My] word and trust in cunning {and} oppression, in crookedness {and} perverseness, and rely on them,H559H6918H3478H3988H1697H982H6233H3868H817213Therefore this iniquity {and} guilt will be to you like a broken section of a high wall, bulging out and ready [at some distant day] to fall, whose crash will [then] come suddenly {and} swiftly, in an instant.H5771H6556H5307H1158H7682H2346H7667H935H6597H662114And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing so that there cannot be found among its pieces one large enough to carry coals of fire from the hearth or to dip water out of the cistern.H7665H7667H3335H5035H3807H2550H4672H4386H2789H2846H784H3344H2834H4325H136015For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning [to Me] and resting [in Me] you shall be saved; in quietness and in [trusting] confidence shall be your strength. But you would not,H559H136H3069H6918H3478H7729H5183H3467H8252H985H1369H1416And you said, No! We will speed [our own course] on horses! Therefore you will speed [in flight from your enemies]! You said, We will ride upon swift steeds [doing our own way]! Therefore will they who pursue you be swift, [so swift that]H559H5127H5483H5127H7392H7031H7291H704317One thousand of you will flee at the threat of one of them; at the threat of five you will flee till you are left like a beacon {or} a flagpole on the top of a mountain, and like a signal on a hill.H259H505H6440H1606H259H6440H1606H2568H5127H3498H8650H7218H2022H5251H1389

God Is Gracious and Just

18And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you {and} show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect {and} look {and} long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!H3068H2442H2603H7311H7355H3068H430H4941H835H244219O people who dwell in Zion at Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.H5971H3427H6726H3389H1058H1058H2603H2603H6963H2199H8085H603020And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself any more, but your eyes will constantly behold your Teacher.H136H5414H3899H6862H4325H3906H3384H3670H5869H7200H338421And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way; walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.H241H8085H1697H310H559H1870H3212H541H804122Then you will defile your carved images overlaid with silver and your molten images plated with gold; you will cast them away as a filthy bloodstained cloth, and you will say to them, Be gone!H2930H6826H6456H3701H642H4541H2091H2219H1739H559H331823Then will He give you rain for the seed with which you sow the soil, and bread grain from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures.H5414H4306H2233H2232H127H3899H8393H127H1879H8082H3117H4735H7462H7337H373324The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory {and} salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and with fork.H504H5895H5647H127H398H2548H1098H2219H7371H421425And upon every high mountain and upon every high hill there will be brooks and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter [the day of the Lord], when the towers fall [and all His enemies are destroyed].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 [concentrated in one], in the day that the Lord binds up the hurt of His people, and heals their wound [inflicted by Him because of their sins].H216H3842H216H2535H216H2535H7659H216H7651H3117H3117H3068H2280H7667H5971H7495H4273H434727Behold, the Name of the Lord comes from afar, burning with His anger, and in thick, rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.H8034H3068H935H4801H1197H639H4858H3514H8193H4390H2195H3956H398H78428And His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that causes them to err will be in the jaws of the people.H7307H7857H5158H2673H6677H5130H1471H5299H7723H7448H3895H5971H858229You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart as when one marches in procession with a flute to go to the temple on the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.H7892H3915H6942H2282H6942H8057H3824H1980H2485H935H2022H3068H6697H347830And the Lord shall cause His glorious voice to be heard and the descending blow of His arm to be seen, coming down with indignant anger and with the flame of a devouring fire, amid crashing blast {and} cloudburst, tempest, and hailstones.H3068H1935H6963H8085H7200H5183H2220H2197H639H3851H398H784H5311H2230H68H125931At the voice of the Lord the Assyrians will be stricken with dismay {and} terror, when He smites them with His rod.H6963H3068H804H2865H5221H762632And every passing stroke of the staff of punishment {and} doom which the Lord lays upon them shall be to the sound of [Israel's] timbrels and lyres, when in battle He attacks [Assyria] with swinging {and} menacing arms.H3605H4145H4294H4569H3068H5117H8596H3658H4421H8573H389833For Topheth [a place of burning and abomination] has already been laid out {and} long ago prepared; yes, for the [Assyrian] king {and} [the god] Molech it has been made ready, its pyre made deep {and} large, with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.H8613H6186H865H4428H3559H6009H7337H4071H784H7235H6086H5397H3068H5158H1614H1197