Isaiah 30
30"Ah, stubborn children," declares the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;H1945H5637H1121H5002H3068H6213H6098H5258H4541H7307H5595H2403H24032who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!H1980H3381H4714H7592H6310H5810H4581H6547H2620H6738H47143Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to 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 on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery 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.H4853H929H5045H776H6869H6695H3833H3918H660H8314H5774H8314H5375H2428H3802H5895H214H1707H1581H5971H32767Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."H4714H5826H1892H7385H7121H2063H1992H7293H76748And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.H935H3789H3871H2710H5612H3117H314H5704H5703H57699For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to 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 despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,H559H6918H3478H3988H1697H982H6233H3868H817213therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;H5771H6556H5307H1158H7682H2346H7667H935H6597H662114and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up 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 were unwilling,H559H136H3069H6918H3478H7729H5183H3467H8252H985H1369H1416and you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; 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, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.H259H505H6440H1606H259H6440H1606H2568H5127H3498H8650H7218H2022H5251H138918Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.H3068H2442H2603H7311H7355H3068H430H4941H835H244219For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.H5971H3427H6726H3389H1058H1058H2603H2603H6963H2199H8085H603020And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.H136H5414H3899H6862H4325H3906H3384H3670H5869H7200H338421And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.H241H8085H1697H310H559H1870H3212H541H804122Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!"H2930H6826H6456H3701H642H4541H2091H2219H1739H559H331823And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,H5414H4306H2233H2232H127H3899H8393H127H1879H8082H3117H4735H7462H7337H373324and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.H504H5895H5647H127H398H2548H1098H2219H7371H421425And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.H1364H2022H5375H1389H6388H2988H4325H3117H7227H2027H4026H530726Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.H216H3842H216H2535H216H2535H7659H216H7651H3117H3117H3068H2280H7667H5971H7495H4273H434727Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, 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 astray.H7307H7857H5158H2673H6677H5130H1471H5299H7723H7448H3895H5971H858229You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast 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 storm and hailstones.H3068H1935H6963H8085H7200H5183H2220H2197H639H3851H398H784H5311H2230H68H125931The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he strikes with his rod.H6963H3068H804H2865H5221H762632And every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.H3605H4145H4294H4569H3068H5117H8596H3658H4421H8573H389833For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, 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
Columbus, OH
