Isaiah 30 — The Holy Bible

Isaiah 30, verse 1. “Woe to the apostate children,” says the Lord! “You made counsel, but not through Me, and covenants, but not of My Spirit, so as to add sins to sins. Isaiah 30, verse 2. You proceeded to go down to Egypt, but did not ask Me, so as to be helped by Pharaoh and protected by the Egyptians. Isaiah 30, verse 3. For the protection of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and there shall be disgrace for those who trust in Egypt. Isaiah 30, verse 4. For there are rulers at Tanis, evil messengers. In vain shall they labor Isaiah 30, verse 5. in seeking a people who will not profit, help or benefit them, but they shall be for them a shame and a disgrace.” Isaiah 30, verse 6. The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert: In affliction and distress they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and camels—amid lions and lion's cubs, and vipers and the offspring of flying vipers—to a nation that will not profit or benefit them, but will be for them a shame and a disgrace. Isaiah 30, verse 7. For the Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain. Tell them, “This consolation of yours is in vain.” Isaiah 30, verse 8. Now therefore, sit and write these things on a tablet in a book, for these things shall be for the time to come, even forever. Isaiah 30, verse 9. For this is a disobedient people, false children, children who are unwilling to hear the law of God. Isaiah 30, verse 10. They say to the prophets, “Do not report to us”; and to those who see visions, “Do not speak to us, but speak and declare to us another deception. Isaiah 30, verse 11. Turn us aside from this way; remove this path from us, and take away from us the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 30, verse 12. Therefore thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel: “Because you disobeyed these words, and hoped in falsehood and grumbled and were confident in this respect; Isaiah 30, verse 13. therefore, this sin shall be to you like a wall ready to fall when a strong city is taken, whose fall is immediately present. Isaiah 30, verse 14. Its fall shall be like the breaking of a clay vessel, like that of a small jar, so as not to find among them even a fragment with which to take away fire, or draw a little water.” Isaiah 30, verse 15. For thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel: “When you return and groan, then you will be saved and know where you were. When you trusted in vain things, vain was your strength, and you did not will to listen.” Isaiah 30, verse 16. But you said, “We will flee on horses”—therefore you shall flee. You also said, “We will ride on swift horses”—therefore those who pursue you shall be swift. Isaiah 30, verse 17. One thousand shall flee at the voice of one; at the voice of five, many shall flee, until you are left as a pole upon a mountain, and as one holding a banner on a hill. Isaiah 30, verse 18. And again God will wait, that He may have compassion on you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you, because the Lord our God is a judge, and where will you leave behind your glory? Blessed are all those who abide in Him. Isaiah 30, verse 19. For a holy people shall dwell in Zion; and Jerusalem cried with wailing, “Have mercy on me.” He will have mercy on you at the sound of your cry. When He sees this, He will listen to you. Isaiah 30, verse 20. The Lord will give you the bread of affliction and scant water; and those leading you astray will no longer approach you, but your eyes shall see those leading you astray. Isaiah 30, verse 21. Your ears shall hear words behind you leading you astray, saying, “This is the way; let us walk in it,” either to the right hand or to the left. Isaiah 30, verse 22. You will also remove your idols plaited with silver and covered with gold. You will grind them to powder and scatter them like the water of an indisposed woman, and thrust them away like dung. Isaiah 30, verse 23. Then there will be rain for the seed of your land, and the bread of produce of your land's increase will be plenteous and rich. In that day your cattle will feed in rich and large pastures. Isaiah 30, verse 24. Your bulls and the oxen that work the ground will eat straw prepared with winnowed barley. Isaiah 30, verse 25. On every high mountain and on every high hill there will be streams in that day, when many perish and the towers fall. Isaiah 30, verse 26. In that day, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, when the Lord heals the wound of His people and the pain of your plague. Isaiah 30, verse 27. Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, a burning anger. The teaching of His lips is with glory, a revelation full of wrath, and the wrath of His anger shall devour like fire. Isaiah 30, verse 28. His breath, like an overflowing stream in a valley, shall reach up to the neck and be divided, to trouble the nations for their vain error; and error shall pursue and overtake them. Isaiah 30, verse 29. Must you always be glad, and go into My holy places continually, as those who keep a feast, and must you always go with a flute, as those who are glad when they go into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel? Isaiah 30, verse 30. God will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and He will show the anger of His arm with anger and wrath, and the flame of a devouring fire. He shall strike violently with thunderbolts, and His wrath shall be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30, verse 31. For through the voice of the Lord, the Assyrians will be defeated, as He strikes them with the rod. Isaiah 30, verse 32. And it shall happen to him on every side, that those from whom his hope of assistance was, and in whom he trusted, shall themselves, in turn, make war on him with flutes and harps. Isaiah 30, verse 33. For you will be required before many days: Was it prepared for you also to reign? No, God prepared for you a deep valley, wood laid down, fire and much wood. The anger of the Lord shall be as a valley burning with brimstone.