Isaiah:30

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* Woe to the sons that leave , saith the LORD , to make counsel , but not of me ; to cover themselves with a covering , and not by my spirit , adding sin unto sin ! * They leave to descend into Egypt and have not [asked for a word from ] my mouth , to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to place their hope in the shadow of Egypt . * But the strength of Pharaoh shall become your shame , and the hope in the shadow of Egypt [your ] confusion . * When his princes shall be in Zoan , and his ambassadors have come to Hanes , * all shall be ashamed of the people [that ] shall not profit them , nor be a help , nor bring them increase , but a shame , and also a reproach . * The burden of the beasts of the south : into the land of trouble and anguish , from whence [come ] the young and old lion , the viper and fiery flying serpent ; they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses and their treasures upon the bunches of camels , to a people [that ] shall not profit [them ]. * For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose ; therefore I have cried [out ] concerning this that your strength [should be ] to sit still . * Now go , write this [vision ] before them on a tablet and note it in a book that it may remain unto the last day , for ever , unto all ages . * That this [is ] a rebellious people , lying sons , sons [that ] did not desire to hear the law of the LORD : * Who say to those that see , See not ; and to the prophets , Do not prophesy right things unto us , speak unto us smooth things , prophesy deceits : * Get you out of the way , turn aside out of the path , cause the Holy One of Israel to leave our presence . * Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel , Because ye despise this word , and trust in violence and perversity and build upon this : * Therefore this sin shall be to you as an open [wall ] ready to fall and as a breach in a high defence , whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant . * And your destruction shall be as the breaking of [a ] potter 's vessel that without mercy is broken to pieces so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it even a shard to take fire from the hearth or to take water from [the ] well . * For the Lord GOD , the Holy One of Israel has said ; In returning and rest shall ye be saved ; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength : and ye would not . * But 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 even more swift . * One thousand [shall flee ] at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five ye shall [all ] flee : until ye are left as a mast upon the top of a mountain and as a banner [of example ] on a hill . * And therefore will the LORD wait [for you ], that he may have mercy on you , and therefore will he be exalted having mercy upon you : for the LORD [is ] a God of judgment : blessed [are ] all those that wait for him . * For the people shall dwell in Zion , in Jerusalem : thou shalt weep no more : he who has mercy shall show mercy unto thee ; at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it , he will answer thee . * But the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity , and the water of affliction ; thy rain shall never more be taken away , but thine eyes shall see thy rain : * Then thine ears shall hear a word behind thee , saying , This [is ] the way , walk ye in it , that ye not turn to the right hand and that ye not turn to the left hand . * Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver and the protection of thy molten images of gold : thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth ; thou shalt say unto it , Go away from here . * Then he shall give the rain unto thy planting when thou shalt sow the ground ; and bread of the fruit of the earth , and it shall be fat and fertile : in that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures . * Thine oxen and thine asses that work the ground shall eat clean grain , which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan . * And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill , rivers [and ] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter , when the towers shall 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 the LORD binds up the breach of his people and heals the stroke of their wound . * Behold , the name of the LORD comes from afar ; his face is blazing and difficult to gaze upon : his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire : * And his Spirit , as an overflowing stream , shall break even unto the neck to sift the Gentiles with the sieve of vanity and [to put a ] bridle in the jaws of the people , causing [them ] to err . * Ye shall have a song , as in [the ] night [in which ] the Passover is kept and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the LORD to the mighty One of Israel . * And the LORD shall cause the power of his voice to be heard and shall cause the lighting down of his arm to be seen , with the indignation of [his ] countenance and [with ] the flame of a devouring fire , [with ] scattering and tempest and hailstones . * For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down , [which ] smote with a rod . * And [in ] every [evil ] place there shall be a staff that the LORD shall cause to lay upon him with tambourines and harps : and with [the ] strength of heaven he will fight against her . * For Tophet [is ] ordained of yesterday for the king [of Babylon ], it is also prepared ; he has deepened [and ] enlarged the pile of her fire and much wood ; the breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone kindles it .:

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