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          DASV: Isaiah 30    

1 "Woe to the rebellious children,"
          declares the LORD,
     "who execute plans that are not mine,
          and who make alliances but not by my Spirit,
           so compounding sin on sin;
2 who set out to go down to Egypt,
     and have not asked for my guidance;
     to find refuge under Pharaoh's protection,
     and seek safety under Egypt's shade!
3 Therefore Pharoah's protection will bring you shame,
     and the safety of Egypt's shade will be your disgrace.
4 For their officials are at Zoan,
     and their envoys have come to Hanes.
5 They will all be ashamed
     because of a people who cannot benefit them,
     who cannot give them help or profit,
     but only shame and disgrace."

6 An oracle about the animals of the Negev.
     Through the land of trouble and anguish,
     of the lioness and roaring lion,
     of the viper and fiery darting serpent,
           they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
     and their treasures upon the humps of camels,
     to a people who cannot help.
7 For Egypt's help is worthless and futile.
     Therefore have I called her "Rahab-who-just-sits-there."
8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet,
      and inscribe it on a scroll,
      that it may be preserved as a witness for the future forever.
9 For they are a rebellious people,
     deceptive children,
           children that will not obey the law of the LORD.
10 They tell the seers, "Stop seeing visions,"
     and to the prophets, "Stop prophesying to us about what is right,
           tell us pleasantries, prophesy illusions.
11 Get out of the way,
     turn aside from the path,
           let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."

12 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says,
     "Because you despise this word,
     and trust and rely on oppression and deception;
13 therefore this iniquity will be to you
     like a cracked and bulging wall ready to fall,
     that topples suddenly, in an instant.
14 He will smash it like a potter's clay pot,
     shattering it into pieces without mercy;
      so that not a shard of it can be found among its pieces
     for taking fire from the hearth,
           or to dipping up water out of a cistern."

15 For this is what the sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel says,
     "In returning and rest you will be delivered;
           quietness and trust will be your strength,
          but you rejected it.
16 You say, 'No, we will flee on horses;'
           therefore you will flee.
     and, 'We will ride on swift horses;'
           therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
17 One thousand of you will flee at the threat of one of them;
     at the threat of five all of you will flee,
           until you are left as a lone flagpole on the top of a mountain,
           and as a signal flag on a hill."
18 Therefore the LORD patiently waits,
          so that he may be gracious to you.
     Therefore he will rise up,
          so that he may have mercy on you.
      For the LORD is a God of justice.
     Blessed are all those who wait for him.

19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem;
          you will weep no more.
      He will surely be gracious to you
          at the sound of your cry for help;
                when he hears, he will answer you.
20 Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity
     and the water of affliction,
      yet your Teacher will not be hidden anymore,
     but your eyes will see your Teacher.
21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying,
     "This is the way, walk in it;"
      when you turn to the right hand,
     or when you turn to the left.
22 Then you will defile your silver-coated carved images,
          and your gold-plated metal idols.
     You will throw them away like a menstrual rag;
          you will say to them, "Get out of here."

23 Then he will give the rain for your seed,
          which you sow in the ground.
      Food from the produce of the ground
          will be rich and plenteous.
      In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen and the donkeys that till the ground
     will eat savory fodder
      which has been winnowed with the shovel and pitchfork.
25 There on every lofty mountain,
     and on every high hill,
      there will be brooks of flowing water,
           in the day of the great slaughter,
           when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
      and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter,
           like the light of seven days,
      in the day that the LORD binds up the injuries of his people
     and heals the wound he has inflicted.

27 Look, the name of the LORD comes from far away,
     burning with his anger,
           and in thick rising smoke.
      His lips are full of fury,
          and his tongue is like a consuming fire.
28 His breath is like a flooding river,
          that reaches even to one's neck.
      He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction.
     He puts a bridle in the jaws of the peoples to lead them to ruin.
29 You will sing a song as in the night when the holy feast is kept;
     have gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute
     to come to the mountain of the LORD,
           to the Rock of Israel.
30 The LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard,
     and will show his arm swinging down,
      with the fury of his anger,
           and the flame of a consuming fire,
     with a cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
31 The Assyrians will be terrified at the voice of the LORD;
     when he strikes them down with his rod.
32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment
     which the LORD will lay on him,
      will be to the sound of tambourines and harps;
     in battles with the waving of his arm,
           he will fight with them.
33 For Topheth has been prepared for a long time;
     yes, made ready for the king;
      he has made its pyre deep and wide
     with firewood piled high;
      the breath of the LORD,
     like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it on fire.

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