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ULT ISA Chapter 30

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30 “Woe, rebellious children”

—the declaration of Yahweh

“Making plans, but not mine,

and pouring out libations, but not by my Spirit,

so adding sin upon sin.

2 Those going down into Egypt,

—but my mouth have not asked—

to have strength in the fortress of Pharaoh

and to refuge in the shadow of Egypt.

3 But the fortress of Pharaoh will be for you shame,

and the refuge in the shade of Egypt, for humiliation.

4 Though its princes are at Zoan,

and their messengers have reached Hanes,

5 all will be ashamed

because of a people not benefiting them:

not help and not aid,

but a shame, and even a disgrace.”

6 An oracle for the beasts of the Negev:

Through the land of trouble and danger

—from it are the lioness and the lion,

the viper and fiery flying serpent—

they carry their riches on the shoulders of donkeys

and their treasures on the humps of camels

to a people not benefiting them,

7 for Egypt helps in emptiness and uselessness.

Therefore, I have called her:

Rahab the Do-Nothing.

8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them

and on a scroll inscribe it,

that it may be for the time to come

as a testimony until forever.

9 For it is a rebellious people, false sons,

sons not willing to hear the law of Yahweh,

10 who say to the seers,

“Do not see,”

and to the prophets,

“Do not prophesy the truth to us!

Speak flattery to us;

prophesy illusions.

11 Turn aside from the way,

stray from the path;

cease speaking of before our faces

the Holy One of Israel.”

12 Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel:

“Because you reject this word

and trust in oppression and corruption

and lean on it,

13 so this sin will be to you

like a crack falling, a bulge in a high wall

whose breach comes suddenly, in an instant.

14 And whose breaking is like the breaking of the vessel of a potter,

shattered with no pity,

so no shard is found among its fragments

to scrape fire from the hearth,

or to draw water out of the cistern.”

15 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel:

“In returning and resting you will be saved;

in quietness and in confidence will be your strength.

But you were not willing.

16 And you said, ‘No, for on horses we shall flee,’

so you will flee;

and, ‘We shall ride upon swift horses,’

so those who pursue you will be swift.

17 One thousand from the face of the threat of one;

from the face of the threat of five you will flee

until you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,

or like a flag on a hill.”

18 And yet Yahweh is waiting to be gracious to you,

and therefore, he rises to show you mercy.

For a God of justice is Yahweh;

blessed are all who wait for him.

19 For people in Zion, dweller in Jerusalem, you will surely not weep. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When he hears it, he will answer you. 20 Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, even so, your teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes will see your teacher, 21 and your ears will hear a word behind you saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 22 And you will desecrate your silver-overlaid idols and your gold-plated figures. You will throw them away like a menstrual rag. You will say to them, “Get out!”

23 And he will give rain for your seed when you sow the ground, and bread of the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fat. In that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures. 24 And the oxen and the donkeys, plowers of the ground, will eat seasoned feed that has been winnowed with a shovel and a fork. 25 And on every high mountain and on every tall hill will be streams, rivers of waters, in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall. 26 And the light of the white one will be like the light of the hot one, and the light of the hot one will be seven times, like the light of seven days in a day. Yahweh will bind up the breakdown of his people and heal the bruises of his wounding.

Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from afar,

his nose burning and in dense smoke.

His lips are full of fury,

and his tongue like a devouring fire.

28 And his breath is like a torrent

rising to the middle of the neck

to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,

and a bridle in the jaws of the peoples leading them astray.

29 You will have a song

as in the night of a holy feast,

and gladness of heart,

as when one walks with a flute to go to the mountain of Yahweh,

to the Rock of Israel.

30 And Yahweh will make the splendor of his voice heard

and show the descent of his arm

in raging nose and flames of a consuming fire,

storm and tempest and stones of hail.

31 For at the voice of Yahweh, Assyria will be dismayed;

he will strike them with a staff.

32 And every stroke of the appointed rod

which Yahweh will lay on them

will be with tambourines and harps

as he fights against them in battle, waving his arm.

33 For a place of cremation was arranged long ago.

Indeed, it is prepared for the king.

He has deepened, widened it,

the pile of fire and much wood.

The breath of Yahweh,

like a stream of brimstone,

will enflame it.