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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“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; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2who 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! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6An 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. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Egypt’s help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10who 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, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13therefore 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; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and 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.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For 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, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16and 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17A 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. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Therefore 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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For 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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And 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. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And 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. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then 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!” |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And 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, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And 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. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Moreover, 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. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Behold, 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; |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28his 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. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29You 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. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30And 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. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he strikes with his rod. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And 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. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For 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. |
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