Isaiah 30 HCSB
Condemnation of the Egyptian Alliance
1Woe to the rebellious children!a
This is the LORD’s declaration.
They carry out a plan,b but not Mine;
2They set out to go down to Egyptc
in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.d
3But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame,
and refuge in Egypt’s shadow your disgrace.e
4For though hisf princes are at Zoang
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,
because of a people who can’t help.
They are of no benefit, they are no help;
they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.h
6An •oraclei about the animals of the •Negev:j
Through a land of trouble and distress,
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who will not help them.
7Egypt’s help is completely worthless;
8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence
9They are a rebellious people,
children who do not want to obey the LORD’s instruction.
10They say to the seers, “Do not see,”
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.n
Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.”o
12Therefore the Holy One of Israel says:
“Because you have rejected this message
and have trusted in oppression and deceit,
13this iniquityp of yours will be
whose collapse will come in an instant — suddenly!
14Its collapse will be like the shattering
of a potter’s jar,q crushed to pieces,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains —
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”
15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said:
“You will be delivered by returning and resting;
your strength will lie in quiet confidence.
and, “We will ride on fast horses” —
but those who pursue you will be faster.r
17One thousand will flee at the threat of one,s
at the threat of five you will flee,
like a solitary pole on a mountaintop
The Lord’s Mercy to Israel
18Therefore the LORD is waiting to show you mercy,
and is rising up to show you compassion,t
All who wait patiently for Him are happy.
19For you people will live on •Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you. 20The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression,u but your Teacherv will not hide Himselfw any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,x 21and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”y 22Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
23Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.z 24The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovelaa and fork. 25Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall. 26The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighterab — like the light of seven days — on the dayac that the LORD bandages His people’s injuries and heals the wounds He inflicted.ad
Annihilation of the Assyrians
27Look, •Yahwehae comes from far away,
His anger burning and heavy with smoke.af
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
28His breath is like an overflowing torrentag
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction
and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples
29Your singing will be like that
on the night of a holy festival,
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the LORD,
30And the LORD will make the splendor of His voice heard
and reveal His armak striking in angry wrath
and a flame of consuming fire,
in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.
31Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the LORD.
32And every stroke of the appointedal staff
that the LORD brings down on him
will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;
He will fight against him with brandished weapons.
33Indeed! •Topheth has been readyam
for the king for a long time now.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
The breath of the LORD,an like a torrent of brimstone,
Footnotes:
a. 30:1 Dt 21:18-21; Is 1:2,23; 30:9; 65:2
b. 30:1 Is 29:15
c. 30:2 Is 31:1; Jr 43:7
d. 30:2 Is 36:9
e. 30:3 Is 20:5-6; 36:6; Jr 42:18,22
f. 30:4 Or Judah’s
g. 30:4 Is 19:11
h. 30:5 Jr 2:36
i. 30:6 Is 13:1
j. 30:6 Or Southland
k. 30:6 Dt 8:15
l. 30:7 Ps 87:4; 89:10; Is 51:9; Ezk 29:3,7
m. 30:9 Is 30:1
n. 30:10 1Kg 22:8,13; Jr 6:14; 23:17,26; Ezk 13:8-16; Rm 16:18; 2Tm 4:3-4
o. 30:11 Is 1:4; 41:14-20; 43:14; 45:11; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9,14
p. 30:13 Is 13:11
q. 30:14 Ps 2:9; Jr 19:10-11
r. 30:16 Is 31:1,3
s. 30:17 Lv 26:36; Dt 28:25; 32:30; Jos 23:10; Pr 28:1
t. 30:18 2Pt 3:9
u. 30:20 1Kg 22:27; Ps 80:5
v. 30:20 Or teachers
w. 30:20 Or themselves
x. 30:20 Or teachers
y. 30:21 Is 35:8-9
z. 30:23 Ps 144:13; Is 32:20; Hs 4:16
aa. 30:24 Mt 3:12
ab. 30:26 Is 24:23; 60:19-20; Rv 21:23; 22:5
ac. 30:26 Mt 25:13
ad. 30:26 Is 33:24; Jr 33:6; Hs 6:1-2
ae. 30:27 Lit the name Yahweh
af. 30:27 Hb obscure
ag. 30:28 Is 11:4; 30:33; 2Th 2:8
ah. 30:28 Is 8:8
ai. 30:28 2Kg 19:28; Is 37:29
aj. 30:29 Is 8:14; 26:4
ak. 30:30 Ex 6:6; Dt 4:34; Jb 40:9; Is 53:1; Jr 32:17; Ezk 20:33
al. 30:32 Some Hb mss read punishing
am. 30:33 2Kg 23:10; Jr 7:31; 19:6
an. 30:33 Is 40:7