Isaiah:30

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* »Suffer you unwilling children ,« says Jehovah . »You pursue a purpose that is not mine . You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit . You add sin to sin . * »You go to Egypt for help without asking for my advice . You want Egypt to protect you . You put your trust in Egypt 's military might . * »The safety of Pharaoh will be your shame and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt , your humiliation . * »Their princes are at Zoan and their ambassadors arrive at Hanes . * »Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot help them . They cannot help . They can only offer shame and reproach .« * THE PROPHESY ABOUT THE BEASTS OF THE NEGEV : The Negev is a land of distress and anguish . Lions and lionesses live there . Vipers and poisonous snakes live there . They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that cannot help them . * Egypt 's help is completely useless . That is why I call her : »Rahab , who sits still .« * Write this on a tablet for them , and inscribe it in a book so that it will be there in the future as a permanent witness . * These people are rebellious and deceitful children . They refuse to listen to Jehovah ’s Law . * They say to the seers : »Do not see the future .« They say to those who have visions : ‘Do not have visions that tell us what is right . Tell us what we want to hear . Prophesy illusions . * »‘Get out of our way ! Stop blocking our path ! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight .’« * This is what the Holy One of Israel says : »You have rejected this warning , trusted oppression and deceit , and you leaned upon them for support . * »For that reason your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack , ready to fall . All of a sudden it will fall . * »It will break like pottery . It will be smashed . Nothing will be left of it . No piece will be big enough to carry live coals from a fireplace or to dip water from a reservoir .« * The Lord Jehovah , the Holy One of Israel , says : »Return to me and be saved . You can have rest . You can be strong by being quiet and by trusting me .« But you do not want that ! * You have said : »No , we will flee on horses .« So you flee . You added : »We will ride on fast horses .« So those who chase you will also be fast . * One thousand people will flee when one person threatens them . You will flee when five threaten you . Then you will be left alone like a flagpole on top of a mountain , like a signpost on a hill . * Jehovah is waiting to be kind to you . He rises to have compassion on you . Jehovah is a God of justice . Blessed are all those who wait for him . * You will live in Zion , in Jerusalem . You will not cry anymore . Jehovah will certainly have pity on you when you cry for help . As soon as he hears you , he will answer you . * Jehovah may give you troubles and hardships . But your Teacher will no longer be hidden from you . You will see your Teacher with your own eyes . * You will hear a voice behind you say : »This is the way . Walk in it ,« whether it turns to the right or to the left . * Then you will dishonor your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered statues . You will throw them away like clothing ruined by stains . You will say to them : »Get out !« * Jehovah will give you rain for the seed that you plant in the ground , and the food that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing . When that day comes , your cattle will graze in large pastures . * The cattle and the donkeys that work the soil will eat a mixture of food that has been winnowed with forks and shovels . * Brooks and streams will be on every lofty mountain and every high hill . When the day of the great slaughter comes , towers will fall . * Then the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun . The light of the sun will be seven times as strong , like the light of seven days . When that day comes , Jehovah will bandage his people 's injuries and heal the wounds he inflicted . * The name of Jehovah is going to come from far away . His anger is burning . His burden is heavy . His lips are filled with fury . His tongue is like a devouring flame . * His breath is like an overflowing stream . It raises neck high and sifts the nations with a sieve of destruction . It places a bit in the mouths of the people to lead them astray . * You will sing a song like the song you sing on a festival night . Your hearts will be happy like someone going out with a flute on the way to Jehovah ’s mountain , to the rock of Israel . * Jehovah will make his majestic voice heard . He will come with all his might , with furious anger , with firestorms , windstorms , rainstorms , and hailstones . * The people of Assyria will be shattered at the sound of Jehovah ’s voice . He will strike them with his rod . * To the sound of tambourines and lyres , Jehovah will pound on them . He will fight them in battle , swinging his fists . * Topheth was prepared long ago . It was made ready for the king . It was made deep and wide and piled high with plenty of burning logs . Jehovah ’s breath will be like a flood of burning sulfur , setting it on fire .

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