Isaiah 30:18–26

18  And utherefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you,

And therefore vwill he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you:

For the Lord is a God of judgment:

wBlessed are all they that wait for him.

19  For xthe people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem:

Thou shalt weep no more:

He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry;

When he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

20  And though the Lord give you ythe bread of adversity, and zthe water of ||affliction,

Yet ashall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more,

But thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

21  And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,

aaThis is the way, walk ye in it,

bWhen ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

22  Ye shall defile also cthe covering of d†thy graven images eof silver,

And fthe ornament of thy molten images eof gold:

Thou shalt †cast them away gas a menstruous cloth;

hThou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

23  Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,

That thou shalt sow the ground withal;

And bread of the increase of the earth,

And it shall be fat and plenteous:

iIn that day shall thy cattle feed in large jpastures.

24  kThe oxen likewise and lthe young asses that mear the ground

Shall eat ||†clean nprovender,

Which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25  And there shall be oupon every high mountain,

And oupon every †high hill,

Rivers and pstreams of waters in the day of the great slaughter,

When othe towers fall.

26  Moreover qthe light of rthe moon shall be as the light of rthe sun,

And the light of rthe sun shall be ssevenfold,

As the light of seven days,

In the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people,

And thealeth the stroke of their wound.