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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Woe to the rebellious children," declares the LORD, "Who execute a plan, but not Mine, And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, In order to add sin to sin; |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Who proceed down to Egypt Without consulting Me, To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt! |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"For their princes are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach." |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys And their treasures on camels' humps, To a people who cannot profit them; |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her "Rahab who has been exterminated." |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now go, write it on a tablet before them And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve in the time to come As a witness forever. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the LORD; |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Who say to the seers, "You must not see visions"; And to the prophets, "You must not prophesy to us what is right, Speak to us pleasant words, Prophesy illusions. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Get out of 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, "Since you have rejected this word And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them, |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore this iniquity will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant, |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter's jar, So ruthlessly shattered That a sherd will not be found among its pieces To take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern." |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, "In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength." But you were not willing, |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And you said, "No, for we will flee on horses," Therefore you shall flee! "And we will ride on swift horses," Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17One thousand will flee at the threat of one man; You will flee at the threat of five, Until you are left as a flag on a mountain top And as a signal on a hill. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, "Be gone!" |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the LORD binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a remote place; Burning is His anger and dense is His smoke; His lips are filled with indignation And His tongue is like a consuming fire; |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28His breath is like an overflowing torrent, Which reaches to the neck, To shake the nations back and forth in a sieve, And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival, And gladness of heart as when one marches 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 voice of authority to be heard, And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, And in the flame of a consuming fire In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified, When He strikes with the rod. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And every blow of the rod of punishment, Which the LORD will lay on him, Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For Topheth has long been ready, Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, A pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire. |
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