Isaiah:30

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* Woe to the rebellious sons , says LORD , who take counsel , but not of me , and who make a league , but not of my Spirit , that they may add sin to sin , * who 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 ! * Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame , and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion . * For their rulers are at Zoan , and their ambassadors have come to Hanes . * They shall all be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them , who are not a help nor profit , but a shame , and also a reproach . * The burden of the beasts of the South . Through the land of trouble and anguish , from where come the lioness and the lion , the viper and fiery flying serpent , they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys , and their tr * For Egypt helps in vain , and to no purpose . Therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still . * Now go , write it before them on a tablet , and inscribe it on a scroll , that it may be for the time to come forever and ever . * For it is a rebellious people , lying sons , sons who will not hear the law of LORD , * who say to the seers , Do not see , and to the prophets , Do not prophesy to us right things . Speak to us smooth things . Prophesy deceits . * You get out of the way . Turn aside out of the path . Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us . * Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel , Because ye despise this word , and trust in oppression and perverseness , and rely on it , * therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall , swelling out in a high wall , whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant . * And 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 of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth , or to dip up water out of the cis * For thus said lord LORD , the Holy One of Israel , Ye shall be saved in returning and rest . Your strength shall be in quietness and in confidence . And ye would not , * but ye said , No , for we will flee upon horses . Therefore ye shall flee . And [ye said ], We will ride upon the swift . Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift . * One thousand [shall flee ] at the threat of one . Ye shall flee at the threat of five , till ye are left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain , and as an ensign on a hill . * And therefore LORD will wait , that he may be gracious to you . And therefore he will be exalted , that he may have mercy upon you . For LORD is a God of justice . Blessed are all those who wait for him . * For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem . Thou shall weep no more . He will surely be gracious to thee at the voice of thy cry . When he shall hear , he will answer thee . * And though LORD give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction , yet thy teachers shall not be hidden anymore , but thine eyes shall see thy teachers . * And 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 . * And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver , and the plating of thy molten images of gold . Thou shall cast them away as an unclean thing . Thou shall say to it , Get thee away . * And he will give the rain for thy seed , with which thou shall sow the ground , and bread of the increase of the ground , and it shall be fat and plenteous . In that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures . * Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender , which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork . * And 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 . * Moreover 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 LORD binds up the hurt of his people , and heals the stroke of their wound . * Behold , the name of LORD comes 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 , * and his breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck , to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction . And a bridle that causes to err [shall be ] in the jaws of the peoples . * Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept , and gladness of heart , as he who goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of LORD , to the Rock of Israel . * And LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard , and will show the coming down of his arm with the indignation of [his ] anger , and the flame of a devouring fire , with a blast and tempest and hailstones . * For through the voice of LORD the Assyrian shall be dismayed . With his rod he will smite [him ]. * And every stroke of the appointed staff , which LORD shall lay upon him , shall be with [the sound of ] tambourine and harps . And he will fight with them in battles with the brandishing [of his arm ]. * For a Topheth is prepared of old , yea , it is made ready for the king . He has made it deep and large . The pile of it is fire and much wood . The breath of LORD kindles it , like a stream of brimstone .

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