Isaiah 30:8–17

8  Now 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:

9  That athis is a rebellious people, lying children,

Children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

10  Which say to the bseers, See not;

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

dSpeak unto us smooth things,

Prophesy deceits:

11  Get you out of the way,

Turn aside out of the path,

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

12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,

Because ye despise this word,

And trust in ||oppression and eperverseness,

And stay thereon:

13  Therefore 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.

14  And 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 sherd

lTo take fire from the hearth,

Or to take water withal out of mthe pit.

15  For 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.

16  But 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.

17  sOne 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 an hill.