ISAIAH 30

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Woe to the Obstinate Nation

1 "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;

2 who go down to Egypt

   without consulting me;

who look for help to Pharaoh's protection,

   to Egypt's shade for refuge.

3 But Pharaoh's protection will be to your shame,

   Egypt's shade will bring you disgrace.

4 Though they have officials in Zoan

   and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

5 everyone will be put to shame

   because of a people useless to them,

who bring neither help nor advantage,

   but only shame and disgrace."

      6 Aprophecy 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,

      7 to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.

Therefore I call her

   Rahab the Do-Nothing.

8 Go 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.

9 For these are rebellious people, deceitful children,

   children unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.

10 They 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.

11 Leave this way,

   get off this path,

and stop confronting us

   with the Holy One of lsrael!"

      12 Therefore this is what the Holy One of larael says:

"Because you have rejected this message,

   relied on oppression

   and depended on deceit,

13 this sin will become for you

   like a high wall, cracked and bulging,

   that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

14 It will break in pieces like pottery,

   shattered so mercilessly

that among its sieces not a fragment wiil be found

   for taking coals from a hearth

   or scooping water out of a cistern."

      15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of

lsrael, says:

"In repentance and rest is your salvation,

   in quietness and trust is your strength,

   but you would have none of it.

16 You 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!

17 A 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."

18 Yet 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!

      19 People 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.

20 Although 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.

21 Whether 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.  22 Then 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!"

      23 He will alse 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.  24 The oxen and donkeys that work

the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork

and shovel.  25 In the day of great slaughter, when the

towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high

mountain and every lofty hill.  26 The moon will shine like

the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter,

the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.

27 See, 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.

28 His breath is like a rushing torrent,

   rising up to the neck.

He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction;

   he paces in the jaws of the peoples

   a bit that leads them astray.

29 And 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 lsrael.

30 The 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.

31 The voice of the LORD  will shatter Assyria;

   with his rod he will strike them down.

32 Every 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.

33 Topheth 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.