LEB ISA Chapter 30

Warning against Alliance with Egypt

• 30 “Oh rebellious children!” declares[fn] Yahweh, “to make a plan, but[fn] not from me,
  • and pour out a libation, but[fn] not from my spirit,

so as to add[fn] sin to sin.

• 2 to Egypt, but[fn] they do not ask of my mouth,
• to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
  • and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.
  • 3  and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation.
  • 4  and his envoys reach to Hanes.
• 5 Everyone 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

6 An oracle of the animals of the Negev:Through a land of trouble and distress,

• of lioness and lion,
  • [fn] them are snake and flying serpent;
• they carry their wealth on the[fn] of male donkeys
  • and their treasures on the humps[fn] of camels,

to a people that cannot profit them.

• 7 [fn] [fn] help with vanity and emptiness, therefore I have called this one “Rahab, they are sitting.”
• 8  and inscribe it on a scroll,
• [fn] it may be [fn]
  • forever, forever.
  • 9 is a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children who are not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,
  • 10  and to the seers, “You must not see truth for us;
• speak smooth things to us,
  • see illusions,
  • 11 the way, turn aside from the path,

put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face.”

• 12 Therefore the holy one of Israel says this:“Because you are rejecting this word
  • and you trust in oppression and[fn]
  • and you rely on it,
  • 13  bulging out on a high wall[fn] suddenly, in an instant.
  • 14 [fn] breaks, that is crushed; he has no compassion,
• and no potsherd is found among its fragments[fn] [fn] from the hearth,
  • or[fn] water from the cistern.”
• 15 For 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[fn] you were not willing,

• 16 and you said,“No! For we will flee on horses!”[fn] Therefore you shall flee!
  • And, “We will ride on swift horses!”[fn] Therefore your pursuers shall be swift!
  • 17 [fn] a threat of one, [fn] of a threat of five you shall flee,
• until you are left like a flagstaff on[fn] of a mountain,
  • and like a signal on a hill.

Yahweh Will Show Mercy

• 18 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.
  • 19  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.
  • 20 the bread of distress and the water of oppression,
• but[fn] your teachers will not hide themselves[fn] any longer.
  • And your eyes[fn] your teachers.
  • 21  “this is the way; walk in it,”
• when you go to your right
  • and when you go to your left.
  • 22  and the covering of your gold image.
• You will scatter them like contaminated things;[fn]
  • you will say to it, “Filth!”[fn]
  • 23 with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and[fn]
• On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures;[fn]
  • 24 [fn] the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
  • 25  watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.
  • 26  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

• 27 burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud.
• His lips are full of indignation,
  • and his tongue is like a devouring fire.
  • 28 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.
  • 29 [fn] 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.
  • 30  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[fn] of hail.
  • 31 he strikes with the rod.
  • 32 the staff of foundation[fn] that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres, and he will fight against it[fn] with battles of brandishing.
  • 33 indeed, it is made ready for the king.
• He makes its pile of wood deep and wide;
  • he makes fire and wood[fn]
    • The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.