The Book of Isaiah
30: 1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of
me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
30:2that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the
shadow of Egypt! 30:3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and
the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 30:4For their princes are at Zoan,
and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. 30:5They shall all be ashamed because of
a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and
also a reproach. 30:6The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and
fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and
their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
30:7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab
that sitteth still. 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever. 30:9For it is a rebellious
people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah; 30:10that say to
the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak
unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits, 30:11get you out of the way, turn aside out
of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 30:12Wherefore
thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in
oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon; 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to
you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
suddenly in an instant. 30:14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,
breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the
pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water
out of the cistern. 30:15For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your
strength. And ye would not: 30:16but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses;
therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that
pursue you be swift. 30:17One thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of
five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an
ensign on a hill. 30:18And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto
you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for
Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him. 30:19For the
people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely
be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer
thee. 30:20And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see
thy teachers; 30:21and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the
way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
30:22And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the
plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean
thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 30:23And he will give the rain for thy
seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the
ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large
pastures; 30:24the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat
savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
30:25And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks
and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of
the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah
bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
30:27Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in
thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a
devouring fire; 30:28and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even
unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that
causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples. 30:29Ye shall have a song as in the
night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a
pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. 30:30And Jehovah
will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his
arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a
blast, and tempest, and hailstones. 30:31For through the voice of Jehovah shall the
Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he smite him. 30:32And every stroke of the
appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with the sound of
tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing of his arm will he fight with
them. 30:33For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he
hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of
Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.