Isaiah 30
30
Judah Warned against Egyptian Alliance
1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the Lord,
“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,
And #30:1 Lit pour out a drink offeringmake an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
In order to add sin to sin;
2Who proceed down to Egypt
Without consulting #30:2 Lit My mouthMe,
To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh,
And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame,
And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
4“For their officials are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
5“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who do not benefit them,
Who are not a help or benefit, but a source of shame and also disgrace.”
6The pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev:
Through a land of distress and anguish,
From #30:6 Lit themwhere come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on the #30:6 Lit shouldersbacks of young donkeys,
And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who will not benefit them;
7Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have called #30:7 Lit this oneher
“#30:7 MT They are Rahab or arrogance, to remain; i.e., Egypt, as a sea monster; see note Job 26:12Rahab who has been exterminated.”
8Now go, write it on a tablet in their presence
And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it may #30:8 Lit beserve in the time to come
# 30:8 As in most ancient versions; MT Forever and ever As a witness forever.
9For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who #30:9 Lit are not willingrefuse to listen
To the #30:9 Or Lawinstruction of the Lord;
10Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions”;
And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy the truth to us.
Speak to us #30:10 Lit smooth thingspleasant words,
Prophesy illusions.
11“Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,
Stop speaking before us about the Holy One of Israel!”
12Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and crookedness, and have relied on them,
13Therefore this wrongdoing will be to you
Like a breach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,
14Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,
# 30:14 Lit Crushed, it will not be spared So ruthlessly shattered
That a shard will not be found among its pieces
To #30:14 Lit snatch uptake fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.”
15For this is what the Lord #30:15 Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGod, the Holy One of Israel, has said:
“In #30:15 Lit returningrepentance and rest you will be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength.”
But you were not willing,
16And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses!”
Therefore you shall flee!
“And we will ride on swift horses!”
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
17One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;
You will flee at the threat of five,
Until you are left like a signal post on a mountain top,
And like a flag on a hill.
God Is Gracious and Just
18¶Therefore the Lord #30:18 Lit waitslongs to be gracious to you,
And therefore He #30:18 Lit is on highwaits on high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who #30:18 Lit waitlong for Him.
19 # 30:19 MT For a people will inhabit Zion, Jerusalem For, you people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you. 20Although the Lord has given you bread of deprivation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher, will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will see your Teacher. 21Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. 22And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to #30:22 Lit it “Go out”them, “Be gone!”
23Then He will give you rain for your seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be #30:23 Lit fatnessrich and #30:23 Lit fatplentiful; on that day your livestock will graze in a wide pasture. 24Also the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat #30:24 Lit sorrel-seasonedseasoned feed, which #30:24 Lit one winnowshas been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. 25And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be #30:25 Lit canals, streams of waterstreams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26And the light of the full moon will be like 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 the Lord binds up the fracture of His people and heals the wound #30:26 Lit of His blowHe has inflicted.
27¶Behold, the name of the Lord comes from a #30:27 Lit distanceremote place;
His anger is burning and #30:27 Lit heavinessdense with #30:27 Lit upliftingsmoke;
His lips are filled with indignation,
And His tongue is like a consuming fire;
28His breath is like an overflowing river,
Which reaches to the neck,
To shake the nations back and forth in a #30:28 Lit sifting of the worthlesssieve,
And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads astray.
29You will have #30:29 Lit the songsongs 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.
30And the Lord will cause #30:30 Lit the majesty of His voiceHis voice of authority to be heard,
And the #30:30 Lit descentdescending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.
31For at the voice of the Lord Assyria will be terrified,
When He strikes with the rod.
32And every #30:32 Lit passingblow of the #30:32 Lit staff of foundationrod of punishment,
Which the Lord will lay on him,
Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres;
And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.
33For #30:33 I.e., the place of human sacrifice to MolechTopheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
# 30:33 Lit Its pile A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.
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Isaiah 30
30
Warning against Alliance with Egypt
1“Oh rebellious children!” declares#Literally “declaration of” Yahweh,
“to make a plan, but#Or “and” not from me,
and pour out a libation, but#Or “and” not from my spirit,
so as to add#Literally “for the sake of adding” sin to sin.
2Who go to go down to Egypt,
but#Or “and” they do not ask of my mouth,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.
3And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you,
and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation.
4For his officials are at Zoan,
and his envoys reach to Hanes.
5Everyone will start to stink because of a people that cannot profit them,
not for help and not for profiting,
but for shame and also for disgrace.”
Oracle regarding the Negev
6An oracle of the animals of the Negev:
Through a land of trouble and distress,
of lioness and lion,
among#Literally “from” them are snake and flying serpent;
they carry their wealth on the backs#Literally “shoulder” of male donkeys
and their treasures on the humps#Hebrew “hump” of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
7For#Or “And” Egyptians#Literally “Egypt” help with vanity and emptiness,
therefore I have called this one “Rahab, they are sitting.”
8Now go, write it on a tablet with them,
and inscribe it on a scroll,
that#Or “and” it may be for the time to come,#Literally “for last day”
forever, forever.
9For it is a people of rebellion, deceitful children,
children who are not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,
10who say to those who do see, “You must not see!”
and to the seers, “You must not see truth for us;
speak smooth things to us,
see illusions,
11turn aside from the way,
turn aside from the path,
put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face.”
12Therefore the holy one of Israel says this:
“Because you are rejecting this word
and you trust in oppression and cunning#Literally “going wrong”
and you rely on it,
13therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall,
bulging out on a high wall that breaks#Literally “whose breaking comes” suddenly, in an instant.
14And he breaks it like a vessel of a potter#Literally “someone who forms” breaks,
that is crushed; he has no compassion,
and no potsherd is found among its fragments#Hebrew “fragment” to take fire#Literally “for the taking away of fire” from the hearth,
or to skim#Literally “for the skimming off of” water from the cistern.”
15For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this:
“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
your strength shall be in quietness and in trust.”
But#Or “And” you were not willing, 16and you said,
“No! For we will flee on horses!”#Hebrew “horse” Therefore you shall flee!
And, “We will ride on swift horses!”#Hebrew “horse” Therefore your pursuers shall be swift!
17One thousand because of#Literally “from the face of” a threat of one,
because#Literally “from the face” of a threat of five you shall flee,
until you are left like a flagstaff on top#Literally “head” of a mountain,
and like a signal on a hill.
Yahweh Will Show Mercy
18Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy,
for Yahweh is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.
19For people will live in Zion;
in Jerusalem, you will surely not weep.
Surely he will be gracious to you;
when he hears the sound of your cry, he will answer you.
20And the Lord will give you the bread of distress
and the water of oppression,
but#Or “and” your teachers will not hide themselves#Hebrew “himself” any longer.
And your eyes shall see#Literally “be seeing” your teachers.
21And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying,
“this is the way; walk in it,”
when you go to your right
and when you go to your left.
22And you will defile the plating of your silver idols
and the covering of your gold image.
You will scatter them like contaminated things;#Hebrew “contaminated thing”
you will say to it, “Filth!”#Or “Get out!”
23And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground,
and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fertile.#Literally “fat”
On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures;#Hebrew “pasture”
24and the oxen and the donkeys that till#Or “tilling” the ground will eat fodder, sorrel
that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
25And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill,
watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.
26And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days,
on the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people,
and he heals the wound of his blow.
Judgment against Assyria
27Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar,
burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud.
His lips are full of indignation,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire.
28And his breath is like an overflowing river;
it reaches up to the neck
to shake the nations with the sieve of worthlessness;
and a bridle that leads astray is on the jawbones of the peoples.
29You shall have a song#Literally “There shall be a song for you” as in the night when a holy festival is kept,
and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute,
to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.
30And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard,
and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen,
in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire,
with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones#Hebrew “stone” of hail.
31Indeed, Assyria will be shattered by the voice of Yahweh;
he strikes with the rod.
32And every stroke of the staff of foundation#Some translations emend this to “discipline” that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres,
and he will fight against it#The reading tradition (Qere) has “them” with battles of brandishing.
33For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday;
indeed, it is made ready for the king.
He makes its pile of wood deep and wide;
he makes fire and wood abundant.#Literally “numerous”
The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.
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