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Isaiah 30
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30"Woe to the obstinate children," declares the LORD, "to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;H1945H5637H1121H5002H3068H6213H6098H5258H4541H7307H5595H2403H2403
2who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh's protection, to Egypt's shade for refuge.H1980H3381H4714H7592H6310H5810H4581H6547H2620H6738H4714
3But Pharaoh's protection will be to your shame, Egypt's shade will bring you disgrace.H4581H6547H1322H2622H6738H4714H3639
4Though they have officials in Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,H8269H6814H4397H5060H2609
5everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace."H3001H5971H3276H5828H3276H1322H2781
6A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,H4853H929H5045H776H6869H6695H3833H3918H660H8314H5774H8314H5375H2428H3802H5895H214H1707H1581H5971H3276
7to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.H4714H5826H1892H7385H7121H2063H1992H7293H7674
8Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.H935H3789H3871H2710H5612H3117H314H5704H5703H5769
9For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.H4805H5971H3586H1121H1121H14H8085H8451H3068
10They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.H559H7200H7200H2374H2372H5229H1696H2513H2372H4123
11Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!"H5493H1870H5186H734H6918H3478H7673H6440
12Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,H559H6918H3478H3988H1697H982H6233H3868H8172
13this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.H5771H6556H5307H1158H7682H2346H7667H935H6597H6621
14It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."H7665H7667H3335H5035H3807H2550H4672H4386H2789H2846H784H3344H2834H4325H1360
15This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.H559H136H3069H6918H3478H7729H5183H3467H8252H985H1369H14
16You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.' Therefore you will flee! You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.' Therefore your pursuers will be swift!H559H5127H5483H5127H7392H7031H7291H7043
17A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."H259H505H6440H1606H259H6440H1606H2568H5127H3498H8650H7218H2022H5251H1389
18Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!H3068H2442H2603H7311H7355H3068H430H4941H835H2442
19People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.H5971H3427H6726H3389H1058H1058H2603H2603H6963H2199H8085H6030
20Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.H136H5414H3899H6862H4325H3906H3384H3670H5869H7200H3384
21Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."H241H8085H1697H310H559H1870H3212H541H8041
22Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!"H2930H6826H6456H3701H642H4541H2091H2219H1739H559H3318
23He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.H5414H4306H2233H2232H127H3899H8393H127H1879H8082H3117H4735H7462H7337H3733
24The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.H504H5895H5647H127H398H2548H1098H2219H7371H4214
25In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.H1364H2022H5375H1389H6388H2988H4325H3117H7227H2027H4026H5307
26The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.H216H3842H216H2535H216H2535H7659H216H7651H3117H3117H3068H2280H7667H5971H7495H4273H4347
27See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.H8034H3068H935H4801H1197H639H4858H3514H8193H4390H2195H3956H398H784
28His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.H7307H7857H5158H2673H6677H5130H1471H5299H7723H7448H3895H5971H8582
29And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.H7892H3915H6942H2282H6942H8057H3824H1980H2485H935H2022H3068H6697H3478
30The LORD will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.H3068H1935H6963H8085H7200H5183H2220H2197H639H3851H398H784H5311H2230H68H1259
31The voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria; with his rod he will strike them down.H6963H3068H804H2865H5221H7626
32Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.H3605H4145H4294H4569H3068H5117H8596H3658H4421H8573H3898
33Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.H8613H6186H865H4428H3559H6009H7337H4071H784H7235H6086H5397H3068H5158H1614H1197


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