Isaiah 30

Woe to ^athe rebellious children, saith the Lord,

^bThat take counsel, but not of me;

And that ^ccover with a covering, but not of my Spirit,

^dThat they may add sin to sin:

²That walk ^eto go down into Egypt,

And have not ^fasked at my mouth;

To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,

And to trust in ^gthe shadow of Egypt.

³Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,

And ^hthe trust in ^gthe shadow of Egypt your confusion.

⁴For his princes were at ⁱZoan,

And ^jhis ambassadors came to ^kHanes.

^5lThey were all ashamed of ^ma people that could not profit them,

Nor be a help nor profit,

But a shame, and also a reproach.

⁶ⁿThe burden of ^othe beasts of the south:

Into the land of ^ptrouble and ^panguish,

^qFrom whence come the young and ^rold lion,

^stThe viper and ^sufiery flying serpent,

^vThey will carry their riches upon the shoulders of ^wyoung asses,

And ^vtheir treasures upon the bunches of camels,

To ^ma people that shall not profit them.

⁷For ^hthe Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:

Therefore have I cried concerning this, Their ^xstrength is to sit still.

⁸Now go, ^ywrite it before them in a table,

And ^znote it in a book,

That it may be for the time to come

For ever and ever:

⁹That ^athis is a rebellious people, lying children,

Children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

¹⁰Which say to the ^bseers, See not;

And to the prophets, ^cProphesy not unto us right things,

^dSpeak unto us smooth things,

Prophesy deceits:

¹¹Get ye out of the way,

Turn aside out of the path,

Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

¹²Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,

Because ye despise this word,

And trust in oppression and ^eperverseness,

And stay thereon:

¹³Therefore this iniquity shall be to you ^fas a breach ready to fall,

Swelling out in a high wall,

^gWhose breaking cometh ^ghsuddenly at an instant.

¹⁴And ⁱhe shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel

That is broken in pieces; ^khe shall not spare:

So that there shall not be found in the bursting of it ^kka sheard

^lTo take fire from the hearth,

Or to take water withal out of ^mthe pit.

¹⁵For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel;

In returning and ⁿrest shall ye be saved;

^oIn quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:

^pAnd ye would not.

¹⁶But ye said, No; for ^qwe will flee upon horses;

Therefore shall ye flee:

And, ^qWe will ride upon ^rthe swift;

Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

^17sOne thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one;

At the rebuke of five shall ye flee:

Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,

And as ^ttan ensign on a hill.

¹⁸And ^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.

¹⁹For ^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.

²⁰And 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:

²¹And 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.

²²Ye shall defile also ^cthe covering of ^dthy 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.

²³Then 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.

^24kThe 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.

²⁵And 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.

²⁶Moreover ^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.

²⁷Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far,

Burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy:

His lips are full of indignation,

And his tongue as a devouring fire:

²⁸And ^whis breath, as an overflowing stream,

^xShall reach to the midst of the neck,

^xxTo sift the nations with the sieve of vanity:

And there shall be ^ya bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

²⁹Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;

And gladness of heart, as ^zwhen one goeth ^awith a pipe

To come into ^bthe mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.

³⁰And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,

And shall shew ^cthe lighting down of his arm,

With the indignation of his anger,

And with ^dthe flame of a devouring fire,

With scattering, and ^etempest, and ^efhailstones.

³¹For ^gthrough the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian ^hbe beaten down,

ⁱWhich smote with a rod.

³²And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass,

Which the Lord shall lay upon him,

It shall be with ^ktabrets and ^kharps:

And in battles of ^lshaking will he fight with it.

³³For ^mTophet is ordained of old;

Yea, for the king it ⁿis prepared;

He hath made it deep and large:

^oThe pile thereof is fire and much wood;

The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, ^pdoth kindle it.

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