Isaiah:30

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* "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 ; * who 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 ! * Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame , and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation . * For though his officials are at Zo 'an and his envoys reach Ha 'nes , * every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them , that brings neither help nor profit , but shame and disgrace ." * An 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 . * For Egypt 's help is worthless and empty , therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still ." * And 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 . * For they are a rebellious people , lying sons , sons who will not hear the instruction of the LORD ; * who say to the seers , "See not "; and to the prophets , "Prophesy not to us what is right ; speak to us smooth things , prophesy illusions , * leave the way , turn aside from the path , let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel ." * Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel , "Because you despise this word , and trust in oppression and perverseness , and rely on them ; * therefore 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 ; * and 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 ." * For 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 , * but 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 . * A 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 . * Therefore 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 . * Yea , 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 . * And 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 . * And 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 . * Then 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 !" * And 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 ; * and the oxen and the asses that till the ground will eat salted provender , which has been winnowed with shovel and fork . * And 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 . * Moreover 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 . * Behold , 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 ; * his 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 . * You 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 . * And 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 . * The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD , when he smites with his rod . * And 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 . * For 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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