Isa 30
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Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord: you have framed counsel, not by me, and
covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:
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even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that
they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.
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For the protection of Pharao shall be to you a disgrace, and there shall be a reproach
to them that trust in Egypt.
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For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.
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In vain shall they labour in seeking to a people, which shall not profit them for
help, but shall be for a shame and reproach.
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THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, where are
the lion and lion’s whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there
shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not
profit them.
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The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is
vain.
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Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things
shall be Gr. for days in time; Alex. seasons for many long days, and even for ever.
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For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:
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who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions, Speak them
not to us, but speak and report to us another error;
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and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the
oracle of Israel.
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Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have refused to obey these
words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident
in this respect:
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therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has
been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.
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And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, as small fragments
of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with which you might
take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.
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Thus says the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When you shall turn and mourn, then you
shall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you did trust in vanities:
then your strength became vain, yet you would not hearken:
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but you said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will be
aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
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A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on account
of the voice of five; until you be left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one
bearing an ensign upon a hill.
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And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted
that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are
they that Or, wait for stay themselves upon him.
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For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: and whereas Jerusalem has Gr. with weeping wept bitterly, saying, Pity me; he shall
pity you: when he perceived the voice of
your cry, he hearkened to you.
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And though the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they
that cause you to err shall no more at all draw nigh to you; for your eyes shall see
those that cause you to err,
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and your ears shall hear the words of them that went after you to lead you astray,
who say, This is the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left.
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And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the gilt ones,
and shall scatter them as the water of a removed woman, and you shall thrust them
forth as dung.
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Then shall there be rain to the seed of your land; and the bread of the fruit of your
land shall be plenteous and rich: and your cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile
and spacious place.
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Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed
barley.
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And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running
in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.
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And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun
shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and
shall heal the pain of your wound.
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Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, burning anger: the word of his
lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his anger shall devour
as fire.
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And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and
be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error: error also shall pursue
them, and Gr. take them to their face overtake them.
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Must you always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep
a feast? and must you go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of
the Lord, to the God of Israel?
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And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the anger of his arm,
to make a display with anger and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly,
and his anger shall be as water and violent hail.
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For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke wherewith
he shall smite them.
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And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance
was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and
with harp.
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For you shall be required before your time: has it been prepared for you also to reign?
nay, God has prepared for you a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the anger
of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.