Isaiah 30

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Isaiah 30

Judah Warned against Egyptian Alliance

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“Woe to the ^(A)rebellious children,” declares the Lord,
“Who ^(B)execute a plan, but not Mine,
And ^(a)^(C)make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
In order to add sin to sin;

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Who ^(D)proceed down to Egypt
Without ^(E)consulting ^(b)Me,
^(F)To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh
And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

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“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be ^(G)your shame
And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

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“For ^(H)their princes are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

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“Everyone will be ^(I)ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,
Who are ^(J)not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.”

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6} The ^(c)oracle concerning the ^(K)beasts of the ^(L)Negev.

Through a land of ^(M)distress and anguish,
From ^(d)where come lioness and lion, viper and ^(N)flying serpent,
They ^(O)carry their riches on the ^(e)backs of young donkeys
And their treasures on ^(P)camels’ humps,
To a people who cannot profit them;

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Even Egypt, whose ^(Q)help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have called ^(f)her
“^(g)^(R)Rahab who has been exterminated.”

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Now go, ^(S)write it on a tablet before them
And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it may ^(h)serve in the time to come
⁽ⁱ⁾As a witness forever.

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For this is a ^(T)rebellious people, ^(U)false sons,
Sons who ^(j)refuse to ^(V)listen
To the ^(k)instruction of the Lord;

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Who say to the ^(W)seers, “You must not see visions”;
And to the prophets, “You must not ^(X)prophesy to us what is right,
^(Y)Speak to us ^(l)pleasant words,
Prophesy illusions.

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“Get out of the way, ^(Z)turn aside from the path,
^(m)^(AA)Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

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12} Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,

“^(AB)Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in ^(AC)oppression and guile, and have relied on them,

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Therefore this ^(AD)iniquity will be to you
Like a ^(AE)breach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes ^(AF)suddenly in an instant,

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Whose collapse is like the smashing of a ^(AG)potter’s jar,
⁽ⁿ⁾So ruthlessly shattered
That a sherd will not be found among its pieces
To ^(o)take fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

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15} For thus the Lord ^(p)God, the Holy One of Israel, has said,

“In ^(q)repentance and ^(AH)rest you will be saved,
In ^(AI)quietness and trust is your strength.”
But you were not willing,

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And you said, “No, for we will flee on ^(AJ)horses,”
Therefore you shall flee!
“And we will ride on swift horses,”
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

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^(AK)One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;
You will flee at the threat of five,
Until you are left as a ^(r)flag on a mountain top
And as a signal on a hill.

God Is Gracious and Just

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Therefore the Lord ^(s)^(AL)longs to be gracious to you,
And therefore He ^(t)waits on ^(AM)high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a ^(AN)God of justice;
How blessed are all those who ^(u)^(AO)long for Him.

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19} ^(v)O people in Zion, ^(AP)inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will ^(AQ)weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will ^(AR)answer you. ^{Tools
20} Although the Lord has given you ^(AS)bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer ^(AT)hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. ^{Tools
21} Your ears will hear a word behind you, “^(w)This is the ^(AU)way, walk in it,” whenever you ^(AV)turn to the right or to the left. ^{Tools
22} And you will defile your graven ^(AW)images overlaid with silver, and your molten ^(AX)images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to ^(x)them, “^(AY)Be gone!”

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23} Then He will ^(AZ)give you rain for ^(y)the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be ^(z)rich and ^(aa)plenteous; on that day ^(BA)your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. ^{Tools
24} Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which ^(ab)has been ^(BB)winnowed with shovel and fork. ^{Tools
25} On every lofty mountain and on ^(BC)every high hill there will be ^(ac)streams running with water on the day of the great ^(BD)slaughter, when the towers fall. ^{Tools
26} ^(BE)The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day ^(BF)the Lord binds up the ^(BG)fracture of His people and ^(BH)heals the bruise ^(ad)He has inflicted.

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Behold, ^(BI)the name of the Lord comes from a ^(ae)remote place;
^(BJ)Burning is His anger and ^(af)dense is His ^(ag)smoke;
His lips are filled with ^(BK)indignation
And His tongue is like a ^(BL)consuming fire;

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His ^(BM)breath is like an overflowing torrent,
Which ^(BN)reaches to the neck,
To ^(BO)shake the nations back and forth in a ^(ah)sieve,
And to put in the jaws of the peoples ^(BP)the bridle which ^(ai)leads to ruin.

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You will have ^(aj)songs as in the night when you keep the festival,
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,
To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

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And the Lord will cause ^(ak)His voice of authority to be heard,
And the ^(al)descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.

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For ^(BQ)at the voice of the Lord ^(BR)Assyria will be terrified,
When He strikes with the ^(BS)rod.

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And every ^(am)blow of the ^(an)^(BT)rod of punishment,
Which the Lord will lay on him,
Will be with the music of ^(BU)tambourines and lyres;
And in battles, ^(BV)brandishing weapons, He will fight them.

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For ^(ao)^(BW)Topheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
^(ap)A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The ^(BX)breath of the Lord, like a torrent of ^(BY)brimstone, sets it afire.

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 30:1: ['Lit ', pour out a drink offering]

b. Isaiah 30:2: ['Lit ', My mouth]

c. Isaiah 30:6: ['Or ', burden of]

d. Isaiah 30:6: ['Lit ', them]

e. Isaiah 30:6: ['Lit ', shoulders]

f. Isaiah 30:7: ['Lit ', this, ' one']

g. Isaiah 30:7: ['M.T. reads ', They are Rahab, ' (or ', arrogance, '), ', to remain]

h. Isaiah 30:8: ['Lit ', be]

i. Isaiah 30:8: ['So the versions; Heb ', Forever and ever]

j. Isaiah 30:9: ['Lit ', are not willing]

k. Isaiah 30:9: ['Or ', law]

l. Isaiah 30:10: ['Lit ', smooth things]

m. Isaiah 30:11: ['Lit ', Cause to cease from our presence, ' the']

n. Isaiah 30:14: ['Lit ', Crushed, it will not be spared]

o. Isaiah 30:14: ['Lit ', snatch up]

p. Isaiah 30:15: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord]

q. Isaiah 30:15: ['Lit ', returning]

r. Isaiah 30:17: ['Lit ', pole]

s. Isaiah 30:18: ['Lit ', waits]

t. Isaiah 30:18: ['Lit ', is on high]

u. Isaiah 30:18: ['Lit ', wait]

v. Isaiah 30:19: ['M.T. reads ', A people will inhabit Zion, Jerusalem]

w. Isaiah 30:21: ['Lit ', saying, “This]

x. Isaiah 30:22: ['Lit ', it “Go out”]

y. Isaiah 30:23: ['Lit ', your]

z. Isaiah 30:23: ['Lit ', fatness]

aa. Isaiah 30:23: ['Lit ', fat]

ab. Isaiah 30:24: ['Lit ', one winnows]

ac. Isaiah 30:25: ['Lit ', canals, streams of water]

ad. Isaiah 30:26: ['Lit ', of His blow]

ae. Isaiah 30:27: ['Lit ', distance]

af. Isaiah 30:27: ['Lit ', heaviness]

ag. Isaiah 30:27: ['Lit ', uplifting]

ah. Isaiah 30:28: ['Lit ', sifting of the worthless]

ai. Isaiah 30:28: ['Lit ', misleads]

aj. Isaiah 30:29: ['Lit ', the song]

ak. Isaiah 30:30: ['Lit ', the majesty of His voice]

al. Isaiah 30:30: ['Lit ', descent]

am. Isaiah 30:32: ['Lit ', passing]

an. Isaiah 30:32: ['Lit ', staff of foundation]

ao. Isaiah 30:33: ['I.e. the place of human sacrifice to Molech']

ap. Isaiah 30:33: ['Lit ', Its pile]

Cross references:

A. Isaiah 30:1: Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 30:9; Isaiah 65:2

B. Isaiah 30:1: Isaiah 29:15

C. Isaiah 30:1: Isaiah 8:11; Isaiah 8:12

D. Isaiah 30:2: Isaiah 31:1; Jeremiah 43:7

E. Isaiah 30:2: Isaiah 8:19

F. Isaiah 30:2: Isaiah 36:9

G. Isaiah 30:3: Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 20:6; Isaiah 36:6; Jeremiah 42:18; Jeremiah 42:22

H. Isaiah 30:4: Isaiah 19:11

I. Isaiah 30:5: Jeremiah 2:36

J. Isaiah 30:5: Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 31:3

K. Isaiah 30:6: Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 46:2

L. Isaiah 30:6: Genesis 12:9

M. Isaiah 30:6: Exodus 5:10; Exodus 5:21; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 8:15; Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:22; Jeremiah 11:4

N. Isaiah 30:6: Deuteronomy 8:15; Isaiah 14:29

O. Isaiah 30:6: Isaiah 15:7; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 46:2

Q. Isaiah 30:7: Isaiah 30:5

R. Isaiah 30:7: Job 9:13; Psalm 87:4; Psalm 89:10; Isaiah 51:9

S. Isaiah 30:8: Isaiah 8:1

T. Isaiah 30:9: Isaiah 30:1

U. Isaiah 30:9: Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 59:3; Isaiah 59:4

V. Isaiah 30:9: Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 24:5

W. Isaiah 30:10: Isaiah 29:10

X. Isaiah 30:10: Isaiah 5:20; Jeremiah 11:21; Amos 2:12; Amos 7:13

Y. Isaiah 30:10: Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 23:17; Jeremiah 23:26; Ezekiel 13:7; Romans 16:18; 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Timothy 4:4

Z. Isaiah 30:11: Acts 13:8

AA. Isaiah 30:11: Job 21:14

AB. Isaiah 30:12: Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 7:9; Isaiah 8:6

AC. Isaiah 30:12: Isaiah 3:14; Isaiah 3:15; Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 59:13

AD. Isaiah 30:13: Isaiah 26:21

AE. Isaiah 30:13: Psalm 62:4; Isaiah 58:12

AF. Isaiah 30:13: Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 47:11

AG. Isaiah 30:14: Psalm 2:9; Jeremiah 19:10; Jeremiah 19:11

AH. Isaiah 30:15: Psalm 116:7; Isaiah 28:12

AI. Isaiah 30:15: Isaiah 7:4; Isaiah 32:17

AJ. Isaiah 30:16: Isaiah 2:7; Isaiah 31:1; Isaiah 31:3

AK. Isaiah 30:17: Leviticus 26:36; Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 32:30; Joshua 23:10; Proverbs 28:1

AL. Isaiah 30:18: Isaiah 42:14; Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 48:9; Jonah 3:4; Jonah 3:10; 2 Peter 3:9; 2 Peter 3:15

AM. Isaiah 30:18: Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:17; Isaiah 33:5

AN. Isaiah 30:18: Isaiah 5:16; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 61:8

AO. Isaiah 30:18: Isaiah 8:17; Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 26:8; Isaiah 33:2

AP. Isaiah 30:19: Isaiah 65:9; Ezekiel 37:25; Ezekiel 37:28

AQ. Isaiah 30:19: Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 60:20; Isaiah 61:1-3

AR. Isaiah 30:19: Psalm 50:15; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 65:24; Matthew 7:7-11

AS. Isaiah 30:20: Psalm 80:5

AT. Isaiah 30:20: Psalm 74:9; Amos 8:11

AU. Isaiah 30:21: Psalm 25:8; Psalm 25:9; Proverbs 3:6; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 35:9; Isaiah 42:16

AV. Isaiah 30:21: Isaiah 29:24

AW. Isaiah 30:22: Exodus 32:2; Exodus 32:4; Judges 17:3; Judges 17:4; Isaiah 46:6

AX. Isaiah 30:22: Exodus 32:2; Exodus 32:4; Judges 17:3; Judges 17:4; Isaiah 46:6

AY. Isaiah 30:22: Matthew 4:10

AZ. Isaiah 30:23: Psalm 65:9-13; Psalm 104:13; Psalm 104:14

BA. Isaiah 30:23: Psalm 144:13; Isaiah 32:20; Hosea 4:16

BB. Isaiah 30:24: Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17

BC. Isaiah 30:25: Isaiah 35:6; Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 43:20

BD. Isaiah 30:25: Isaiah 34:2

BE. Isaiah 30:26: Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 60:19; Isaiah 60:20; Revelation 21:23; Revelation 22:5

BF. Isaiah 30:26: Isaiah 61:1

BG. Isaiah 30:26: Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 30:14

BH. Isaiah 30:26: Deuteronomy 32:39; Job 5:18; Isaiah 33:24; Jeremiah 33:6; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 6:2

BI. Isaiah 30:27: Isaiah 59:19

BJ. Isaiah 30:27: Isaiah 10:17

BK. Isaiah 30:27: Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 66:14

BL. Isaiah 30:27: Isaiah 66:15

BM. Isaiah 30:28: Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 30:33; 2 Thessalonians 2:8

BN. Isaiah 30:28: Isaiah 8:8

BO. Isaiah 30:28: Amos 9:9

BP. Isaiah 30:28: Isaiah 37:29

BQ. Isaiah 30:31: Isaiah 11:4

BR. Isaiah 30:31: Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 14:25; Isaiah 31:8

BS. Isaiah 30:31: Isaiah 10:26; Isaiah 11:4

BT. Isaiah 30:32: Isaiah 10:24

BU. Isaiah 30:32: 1 Samuel 18:6; Jeremiah 31:4

BV. Isaiah 30:32: Ezekiel 32:10

BW. Isaiah 30:33: Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:6

BX. Isaiah 30:33: Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 30:28

BY. Isaiah 30:33: Genesis 19:24; Isaiah 34:9