Isaiah 30:1-13 ▼

1 ` Woe to the rebellious” sons, says YHWH, “Making counsels not from Me and weaving webs not of My Spirit, for the purpose of adding sin upon sin—

2 those going down to Egypt (and they have not asked My mouth) to take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

3 And the strength of Pharaoh will be unto you? for shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt for disgrace.

4 For his princes are in Zoan, and his messengers have reached Hanes;

5 they all come to shame over a people of no profit to them, not for help and not for gain, but for shame and even for scorn.”

6 The burden of the beasts of the Negev: In a land of distress and anguish, from which came lioness and lion, the flying viper and serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulder of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them,

7 and to Egypt in emptiness and uselessness for helping; therefore I have called to her, Rahab-hem-shebeth.

8 Now go write it on a tablet before them and inscribe it on a scroll, that it may be for a day to come for a witness even to forever;

9 for it is a rebellious people, sons of deceit, sons not willing to hear the instruction of YHWH,

10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions.

11 Turn aside from the way, bend away from the path, make cease before our faces the Holy One of Israel.”

12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you? reject this word, and you? trust in oppression and corruption and lean on it,

13 so will be to you? this iniquity like a breach ready to fall, bulging in a high wall, whose breach suddenly comes in an instant.