Isa 30
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Woe to the rebellious children, says YHWH, that take counsel, but not of me; and that
make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
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that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen
themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion.
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For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
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They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not
a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from
whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry
their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps
of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
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For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that
sits still.
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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be
for the time to come for ever and ever.
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For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law
of YHWH;
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that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things,
speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,
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get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to
cease from before us.
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Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust
in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;
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therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in
a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
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And he shall break it as a potter`s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without
sparing; so that there shall not be found among its pieces a sherd wherewith
to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
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For thus said the Lord YHWH, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you
be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And you would not:
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but you said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We
will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
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One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee:
till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
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And therefore will YHWH wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore will he
be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for YHWH is a God of justice; blessed
are all they that wait for him.
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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely
be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.
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And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet
shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;
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and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it;
when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
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And you shall defile the overlaying of your graven images of silver, and the plating
of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall
say to it, Get you hence.
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And he will give the rain for your seed, wherewith you shall sow the ground; and bread
of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall
your cattle feed in large pastures;
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the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender,
which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
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And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks [and]
streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of
the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that YHWH binds
up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
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Behold, the name of YHWH comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising
smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
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and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift
the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall
be] in the jaws of the peoples.
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You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart,
as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of YHWH, to the Rock of Israel.
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And YHWH will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down
of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire,
with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
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For through the voice of YHWH shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he
smite [him].
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And every stroke of the appointed staff, which YHWH shall lay upon him, shall be with
[the sound of] tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm]
will he fight with them.
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For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he has made
it deep and large; its pile is fire and much wood; the breath of YHWH, like
a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.