Isaiah 30

1Woe to the apostate children,' says the Lord! 'You made counsel, but not through Me, and covenants, but not of My Spirit, so as to add sins to sins.

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2You proceeded to go down to Egypt, but did not ask Me, so as to be helped by Pharaoh and protected by the Egyptians.

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3For the protection of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and there shall be disgrace for those who trust in Egypt.

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4For there are rulers at Tanis, evil messengers. In vain shall they labor

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5in seeking a people who will not profit, help or benefit them, but they shall be for them a shame and a disgrace.'

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6The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert: In affliction and distress they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and camels—amid lions and lion's cubs, and vipers and the offspring of flying vipers—to a nation that will not profit or benefit them, but will be for them a shame and a disgrace.

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7For the Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain. Tell them, 'This consolation of yours is in vain.'

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8Now therefore, sit and write these things on a tablet in a book, for these things shall be for the time to come, even forever.

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9For this is a disobedient people, false children, children who are unwilling to hear the law of God.

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10They say to the prophets, 'Do not report to us'; and to those who see visions, 'Do not speak to us, but speak and declare to us another deception.

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11Turn us aside from this way; remove this path from us, and take away from us the Holy One of Israel.'

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12Therefore thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel: 'Because you disobeyed these words, and hoped in falsehood and grumbled and were confident in this respect;

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13therefore, this sin shall be to you like a wall ready to fall when a strong city is taken, whose fall is immediately present.

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14Its fall shall be like the breaking of a clay vessel, like that of a small jar, so as not to find among them even a fragment with which to take away fire, or draw a little water.'

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15For thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel: 'When you return and groan, then you will be saved and know where you were. When you trusted in vain things, vain was your strength, and you did not will to listen.'

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16But you said, 'We will flee on horses'—therefore you shall flee. You also said, 'We will ride on swift horses'—therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

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17One thousand shall flee at the voice of one; at the voice of five, many shall flee, until you are left as a pole upon a mountain, and as one holding a banner on a hill.

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18And again God will wait, that He may have compassion on you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you, because the Lord our God is a judge, and where will you leave behind your glory? Blessed are all those who abide in Him.

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19For a holy people shall dwell in Zion; and Jerusalem cried with wailing, 'Have mercy on me.' He will have mercy on you at the sound of your cry. When He sees this, He will listen to you.

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20The Lord will give you the bread of affliction and scant water; and those leading you astray will no longer approach you, but your eyes shall see those leading you astray.

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21Your ears shall hear words behind you leading you astray, saying, 'This is the way; let us walk in it,' either to the right hand or to the left.

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22You will also remove your idols plaited with silver and covered with gold. You will grind them to powder and scatter them like the water of an indisposed woman, and thrust them away like dung.

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23Then there will be rain for the seed of your land, and the bread of produce of your land's increase will be plenteous and rich. In that day your cattle will feed in rich and large pastures.

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24Your bulls and the oxen that work the ground will eat straw prepared with winnowed barley.

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25On every high mountain and on every high hill there will be streams in that day, when many perish and the towers fall.

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26In that day, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, when the Lord heals the wound of His people and the pain of your plague.

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27Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, a burning anger. The teaching of His lips is with glory, a revelation full of wrath, and the wrath of His anger shall devour like fire.

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28His breath, like an overflowing stream in a valley, shall reach up to the neck and be divided, to trouble the nations for their vain error; and error shall pursue and overtake them.

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29Must you always be glad, and go into My holy places continually, as those who keep a feast, and must you always go with a flute, as those who are glad when they go into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel?

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30God will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and He will show the anger of His arm with anger and wrath, and the flame of a devouring fire. He shall strike violently with thunderbolts, and His wrath shall be as water and violent hail.

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31For through the voice of the Lord, the Assyrians will be defeated, as He strikes them with the rod.

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32And it shall happen to him on every side, that those from whom his hope of assistance was, and in whom he trusted, shall themselves, in turn, make war on him with flutes and harps.

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33For you will be required before many days: Was it prepared for you also to reign? No, God prepared for you a deep valley, wood laid down, fire and much wood. The anger of the Lord shall be as a valley burning with brimstone.

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