“1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel,
but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit,
that they may add sin to sin: 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and
have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of
Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the
strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt
[your] confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors
came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not
profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach. 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old lion, the
viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the
shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of
camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them]. 7 For the Egyptians
shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning
this, Their strength [is] to sit still.”
“8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 9 That this [is]
a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the
law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of
the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an
instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel
that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be
found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to
take water [withal] out of the pit. 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the
Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in
quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. 16
But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee:
and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you
be swift. 17 One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the
rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top
of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.”
“18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto
you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you:
for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait
for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt
weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy
cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And [though] the
Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet
shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes
shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right
hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering
of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of
gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say
unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,
that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the
earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that
ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with
the shovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high
mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in
the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the
sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the
LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of
their wound.”
“27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his
anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as
an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the
nations with the sieve of vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the
jaws of the people, causing [them] to err. 29 Ye shall have a song, as
in the night [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as
when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the
mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to
be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring fire,
[with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. 31 For through the voice
of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [which] smote with a rod.
32 And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the
LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with tabrets and harps: and in
battles of shaking will he fight with it. 33 For Tophet [is] ordained of
old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and]
large: the pile thereof [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD,
like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.” (Isaiah 30:1-33 AV)