Isaiah 30:1

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Do Not Go Down to Egypt

30 “Ah, ^(A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
^(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make ^(C)an alliance,^[a] but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;

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Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web

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A Rebellious People

⁸And now, go, ^(A)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 forever.^[a]
⁹^(B)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;
¹⁰^(C)who say to ^(D)the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us ^(E)smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,
¹¹leave the way, turn aside from the path,
    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
¹²Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Because you despise this word
    and trust in ^(F)oppression and perverseness
    and rely on them,
¹³therefore this iniquity shall be to you
    ^(G)like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
    whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
¹⁴and its breaking is ^(H)like that of a potter's vessel
    that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
    with which to take fire from the hearth,
    or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

¹⁵For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
“In ^(I)returning^[b] and ^(J)rest you shall be saved;
    in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
But you were unwilling, ¹⁶and you said,
“No! We will flee upon ^(K)horses”;
    therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
    therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
¹⁷^(L)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.

The Lord Will Be Gracious

¹⁸Therefore the Lord ^(M)waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he ^(N)exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
^(O)blessed are all those who wait for him.

¹⁹For a people shall dwell ^(P)in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. ²⁰And though the Lord give you the ^(Q)bread of adversity and the ^(R)water of affliction, ^(S)yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. ²¹^(T)And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is ^(U)the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. ²²Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. ^(V)You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”

²³^(W)And he will give ^(X)rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. ^(Y)In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, ²⁴and ^(Z)the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. ²⁵And ^(AA)on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, ^(AB)when the towers fall. ²⁶^(AC)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 ^(AD)the Lord binds up ^(AE)the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.