Isaiah 30:1-28 ▼

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.

14 And He will break it like the breaking of the vessel of a potter shattered with no pity; and there will not be found among its fragments a shard to scrape fire from the hearth or to draw water from the cistern.”

15 For thus says the Lord YHWH, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you? will be saved; in quietness and in confidence will be your? strength.” And you? were not willing,”

16 and you? said, “No,” for we will flee on horses.” Therefore you? will flee—“For we will ride on swift ones.” (upon thus, those pursuing you? will be swift.)

17 One thousand from the face of the threat of one, from the face of the threat of five you? will flee, until only you? are left behind like a pole on the top of the mountain and like a banner on the hill!

18 And YHWH waits to show you? favor, and therefore He rises up to show you? mercy. For YHWH is a God of justice; blessed are all those waiting for Him.

19 Indeed, O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, surely you will weep no more. Surely He will show you favor at the voice of your crying; at His hearing it, He will answer you.

20 The Lord gives to you? the bread of distress and the water of oppression, and your teachers will not be hidden in a corner anymore, and your eyes will be seeing your teachers.

21 And Your ears will hear a word from behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it,” when you? turn to the right or when you? turn to the left.

22 And you? will defile the overlaid idols of your silver, and the plating of the molten images of your gold; you will throw them away like menstrual cloths—“Filth!”” You will say to it.

23 And He will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and the bread of the produce of the ground, and it will be fat and rich. In that day your cattle will feed in broad pastures,

24 and the oxen and the donkeys working the ground will eat seasoned fodder that has been winnowed with the shovel and the pitchfork.

25 And there will be on every high mountain and on every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of great slaughter at the falling of the towers.

26 And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold—like the light of seven days—on the day that YHWH binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds of His scourging.

27 Behold, the name of YHWH is coming from afar! With His nose burning and denseness of smoke, His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue is like a devouring fire.

28 And His breath is like an overflowing torrent; it reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility, and a bridle leading them astray is upon the jaws of the peoples.