Isaiah 30:9–15

⁹For it is a people of rebellion, deceitful children,

children who are not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,

¹⁰who say to those who do see, “You must not see!”

and to the seers, “You must not see truth for us;

speak smooth things to us,

see illusions,

¹¹turn aside from the way, turn aside from the path,

put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face.”

¹²Therefore the holy one of Israel says this:

“Because you are rejecting this word

and you trust in oppression and cunning^m

and you rely on it,

¹³therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall,

bulging out on a high wall that breaksⁿ suddenly, in an instant.

¹⁴And he breaks it like a vessel of a potter^o breaks,

that is crushed; he has no compassion,

and no potsherd is found among its fragments^p to take fire^q from the hearth,

or to skim^r water from the cistern.”

¹⁵For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this:

“In returning and rest you shall be saved;

your strength shall be in quietness and in trust.”

But^s you were not willing,