Isaiah 30 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Judah Warned against Egyptian Alliance

Isa 30:1"Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

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Isa 30:2who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

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Isa 30:3Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

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Isa 30:4For though his officials are at Zo'an and his envoys reach Ha'nes,

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Isa 30:5every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace."

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Isa 30:6An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

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Isa 30:7For Egypt's help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."

Isa 30:8

Isa 30:8And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness for ever.

Isa 30:9

Isa 30:9For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the LORD;

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Isa 30:10who say to the seers, "See not"; and to the prophets, "Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Isa 30:11

Isa 30:11leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."

Isa 30:12

Isa 30:12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;

Isa 30:13

Isa 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;

Isa 30:14

Isa 30:14and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

Isa 30:15

Isa 30:15For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." And you would not,

Isa 30:16

Isa 30:16but you said, "No! We will speed upon horses," therefore you shall speed away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds," therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

Isa 30:17

Isa 30:17A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

God Is Gracious and Just

Isa 30:18

Isa 30:18Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you; therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isa 30:19

Isa 30:19Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.

Isa 30:20

Isa 30:20And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

Isa 30:21

Isa 30:21And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Isa 30:22

Isa 30:22Then you will defile your silver-covered graven images and your gold-plated molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them, "Begone!"

Isa 30:23

Isa 30:23And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your cattle will graze in large pastures;

Isa 30:24

Isa 30:24and the oxen and the asses that till the ground will eat salted provender, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

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Isa 30:25And upon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

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Isa 30:26Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

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Isa 30:27Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;

Isa 30:28

Isa 30:28his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.

Isa 30:29

Isa 30:29You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

Isa 30:30

Isa 30:30And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.

Isa 30:31

Isa 30:31The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he smites with his rod.

Isa 30:32

Isa 30:32And every stroke of the staff of punishment which the LORD lays upon them will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with them.

Isa 30:33

Isa 30:33For a burning place has long been prepared; yea, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.

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Isaiah 30 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Judah Warned against Egyptian Alliance

God Is Gracious and Just

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