Isaiah 30:1-33
[1] “Woe
to the stubborn children,” declares יהוה, “to make counsel, but not from Me, and to devise plans, but
not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;
[2] who are setting
out to go down to Mitsrayim, and have not asked My mouth, to be strengthened in
the strength of Pharaoh, and to seek refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim!
[3] “And the strength
of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim
your confusion.
[4] “For his princes
were at Tsoʽan, and his messengers came to Ḥanes.
[5] “They were all
ashamed of a people who do not profit them, not for help or profit, but a shame
and also a reproach.”
[6] The message
concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress,
from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they
convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the
humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,
[7] even Mitsrayim,
whose help is vain and empty. Therefore I have called her Rahaḇ-Hĕm-Sheḇeth.
[8] And go, write it
before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, that it is for a latter
day, a witness forever:
[9] that this is a
rebellious people, lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of יהוה,
[10] who say to the
seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right.
Speak to us what is smooth, prophesy deceits.
[11] “Turn aside from
the way, swerve from the path, cause the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl to cease
from before us.”
[12] Therefore thus
said the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “Because you despise this word, and trust
in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them,
[13] therefore this crookedness
is to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking
comes suddenly, swiftly.”
[14] And He shall
break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, which is broken in pieces,
without sparing, so that there is not found among its fragments a sherd to take
fire from the hearth, or to take water from the cistern.
[15] For thus said the
Master יהוה, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “In
returning and rest you are saved, in stillness and trust is your strength.” But
you would not,
[16] and you said,
“No, for we flee upon horses,” therefore you flee! And, “We ride on swift
horses,” therefore those who pursue you are swift!
[17] One thousand flee
at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you shall flee until you are left
as a pole on top of a mountain and as a sign on a hill.
[18] And therefore יהוה shall wait, to show you favour. And
therefore He shall be exalted, to have compassion on you. For יהוה is an Elohim of right-ruling. Blessed are
all those who wait for Him.
[19] For the people
shall dwell in Tsiyon at Yerushalayim, you shall weep no more. He shall show
much favour to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He shall answer
you.
[20] Though יהוה gave you bread of adversity and water of
affliction, your Teacher1 shall no
longer be hidden. But your eyes shall see your Teacher1,
Footnote: 1Or teachers. See also
Joel 2:23.
[21] and your ears
hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the Way, walk in it,” whenever you
turn to the right, or whenever you turn to the left.
[22] And you shall
defile the covering of your graven images of silver, and the plating of your
moulded images of gold. You shall throw them away as a menstrual cloth and say
to them, “Be gone!”
[23] And He shall give
the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase
of the earth. And it shall be fat and rich, your cattle grazing in an enlarged
pasture in that day,
[24] and the oxen and
the young donkeys that work the ground eat seasoned fodder winnowed with shovel
and fan.
[25] And on every high
mountain and on every high hill there shall be rivers and streams of waters, in
the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
[26] And the light of
the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun be
sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that יהוה binds up the breach of His people, and heals the wound of His
blows.
[27] See, the Name of יהוה is coming from afar, burning with His
wrath, and heavy smoke. His lips shall be filled with rage, and His tongue be
as a devouring fire;
[28] and His breath
shall be as an overflowing stream, which reaches up to the neck, to sift1 the nations with a sieve of
falsehood, and a misleading bridle on the jaws of the peoples. Footnote: 1Amos 9:9.
[29] Let the song be
to you as in a night set apart for a festival, and gladness of heart as he who
is going with a flute, to come into the mountain of יהוה, to the Rock of Yisra’ĕl.
[30] And יהוה shall cause His excellent voice to be
heard, and show the coming down of His arm, with raging wrath and the flame of
a consuming fire, with scattering, downpour and hailstones.
[31] For through the
voice of יהוה Ashshur is broken down, with a rod He
smites.
[32] And every passage
of the ordained staff which יהוה lays on him, shall be with tambourines and lyres, when He shall
fight with it, battling with a brandishing arm.
[33] For Topheth was
ordained of old, even for the sovereign it has been prepared. He has made it
deep and large, its fire pit with much wood; the breath of יהוה, as a stream of burning sulphur, is
burning in it!
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