| Isa. 30:1 |
Woe to the rebellious children, / Declares Jehovah, / Who devise counsel, but not of Me, / And who make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, / In order to add / Sin upon sin; |
| Isa. 30:2 |
Who go down to Egypt, / Yet do not ask of My mouth, / To take refuge in the refuge of Pharaoh, / And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt. |
| Isa. 30:3 |
Therefore the refuge of Pharaoh will be your shame, / And shelter in the shadow of Egypt, [your] humiliation. |
| Isa. 30:4 |
For their princes are at Zoan, / And their ambassadors have come to Hanes. |
| Isa. 30:5 |
All are ashamed / Of a people that cannot profit them, / Nor be a help or profit [to them,] / But rather a shame and also a reproach. |
| Isa. 30:6 |
The burden concerning the beasts of the Negev: / Through the land of distress and anguish, / From which [come] lioness and lion, / Viper and flying fiery serpent, / They carry their riches upon young donkeys' backs / And their treasures upon camels' humps / To a people that cannot profit [them;] |
| Isa. 30:7 |
For Egypt helps in a vain and empty way. / Therefore I call her / Rahab, who sits still. |
| Isa. 30:8 |
Go now; write it on a tablet before them, / And inscribe it on a scroll, / That it may be, for the time to come, / As a witness forever. |
| Isa. 30:9 |
For this is a rebellious people, / False children, / Children who refuse to hear / The instruction of Jehovah; |
| Isa. 30:10 |
Who say to those who see, Do not see; / And to those who have visions, Do not give us true visions; / Speak pleasant things to us; / Give [us] illusions as your visions; |
| Isa. 30:11 |
Get out of the way; / Turn aside from the path; / Cause the Holy One of Israel / To cease from before us. |
| Isa. 30:12 |
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, / Because you despise this word And trust in oppression and guile, / And rely on them, |
| Isa. 30:13 |
Therefore this iniquity / Will be to you / Like a breach ready to fall, / Sticking out on a high wall, / Whose crashing comes / In an instant, suddenly. |
| Isa. 30:14 |
And its crashing will be like the crashing of the potters' vessel: / Crushed--he will not spare; / And there will not be found / Among the crushed pieces a shard / [With which] to take fire from the hearth / Or to draw water from the cistern. |
| Isa. 30:15 |
For thus says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, / In returning and rest you will be saved; / In quietness and in trust will be your strength; / But you were not willing, |
| Isa. 30:16 |
And said, No, for we will flee on horses; / Therefore you will flee. / And, We will ride upon the swift; / Therefore those who chase you will be swift. |
| Isa. 30:17 |
One thousand [will] [flee] at the rebuke of one; / At the rebuke of five you will flee, / Until you are left / Like a [bare] mast upon a mountaintop / And a standard on a hill. |
| Isa. 30:18 |
And therefore Jehovah waits to be gracious to you, / And therefore He remains on high to have compassion on you; / For Jehovah is a God of justice; / Blessed are all those who wait for Him. |
| Isa. 30:19 |
For a people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem-- / You will weep no more; / He will be most gracious to you at the sound of your cry; / When He hears it, He will answer you. |
| Isa. 30:20 |
And though the Lord has given you / The bread of adversity and the water of oppression, / Your Teacher will no longer hide Himself in a corner, / But your eyes will see your Teacher. |
| Isa. 30:21 |
And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, / This is the way, walk in it, / When you turn to the right or turn to the left. |
| Isa. 30:22 |
And you will defile the silver covering of your graven images / And the gold plating of your molten idols; / You will scatter them like some dirty thing; / You will say to it, Go away! |
| Isa. 30:23 |
Then He will give rain for your seed, / Which you will sow in the ground, / And the bread of the increase of the ground; / And it will be fat and plenteous. / Your livestock will feed in that day / In a vast pasture. |
| Isa. 30:24 |
And the oxen and donkeys that work the ground / Will eat salted fodder that has been winnowed with shovel and fork. |
| Isa. 30:25 |
And upon every high mountain / And upon every prominent hill / There will be brooks [and] streams of water / In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. |
| Isa. 30:26 |
And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, / And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, / On the day when Jehovah binds up the breach of His people / And heals the wound [left] from His stroke. |
| Isa. 30:27 |
Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from a distance, / Burning with His anger and heavy with smoke; / His lips are full of indignation, / And His tongue is like a devouring fire; |
| Isa. 30:28 |
His breath, like an overflowing stream, / Reaches up to the neck, / To sift the nations with the sieve of nothingness; / And a bridle that leads them to err is in the jaws of the peoples. |
| Isa. 30:29 |
You will have a song / As in the night when the feast is sanctified, / And gladness of heart as when one marches to the flute / To go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. |
| Isa. 30:30 |
And Jehovah will cause the majesty of His voice to be heard / And the descending of His arm to be seen, / With the blasting of anger and the flame of devouring fire, / In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones. |
| Isa. 30:31 |
For at the voice of Jehovah, Assyria will be dismayed; / With a staff He will strike. |
| Isa. 30:32 |
And every pass of the appointed rod, / Which Jehovah will lay upon him, / Will be with tambourines and harps; / And in battles of brandishing weapons He will fight against them. |
| Isa. 30:33 |
For Topheth has been arranged since long ago; / Indeed it has been prepared for the king; / He made [it] deep; He made [it] large. / The pile in it is of fire and much wood; / The breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, / Sets it on fire. |