Isaiah 30

¹ "Woe, stubborn sons!" averring is Yahweh, "To make counsel, yet not from Me, and to libate a libation, yet not of My spirit, that they may add sin on sin! ² Going down to Egypt, yet they do not ask at My mouth, to be strong in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! ³ Yet become, for you, shall the stronghold of Pharaoh for shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt for confounding. ⁴ For his chiefs come to be in Zoan, and his messengers are attaining Hanes. ⁵ All are ashamed of a people who are not benefiting them, not for help, and not for benefit, for they are for shame, and even for reproach." ⁶ The load of the beasts of the south rim; in a land of distress and aridity and constraint, the parent lion and the long maned lion are there, yet no water. The puff adder and the burning serpent are making flight. They are bearing on the shoulders of donkeys their estate, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people who are not benefiting them for help, but for shame and for reproach. ⁷ And Egypt in vain and for naught is helping you. Wherefore I call as to this, "Their audacity shall cease!" ⁸ Now come, write it on a tablet for them. And on a scroll delineate it, and it shall come to be for the day hereafter, for the future, till the eon. ⁹ For a rebellious people are they, sons of dissimulations, sons who would not hearken to the law of Yahweh, ¹⁰ who say to the seers, "You shall not direct us!" And to the vision seers, "You shall not perceive correctives for us! Speak to us slick things, perceive trifles. ¹¹ Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path. Eradicate from our face the Holy One of Israel." ¹² Wherefore, thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel: "Because you reject this word, and are trusting in extortion and are devious, and are leaning on it, ¹³ wherefore, this depravity will come to you as a falling breach, an extrusion in a wall impregnable, of which, suddenly, in an instant, its break is coming. ¹⁴ And it is broken as the breaking of a potter's crock. Pounding He will not spare. And, when it has been pounded, a shard will not be found to bank a fire from glowing coals, or to bare the water from a pool." ¹⁵ For thus says my Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel: "By returning and resting shall you be saved. In quietness and in trust shall come your mastery. Yet you are not willing to hear. ¹⁶ And saying are you, 'No. For on horses will we flee,' therefore you shall flee. And `On the fleet will we ride.' Therefore fleet shall be your pursuers." ¹⁷ One thousand in view of the rebuke of one shall flee, and in view of the rebuke of five, ten thousand of you will flee, till you should be left as a mast on the summit of a mountain, and as a banner on a hill." ¹⁸ Wherefore Yahweh is tarrying, to be gracious to you; wherefore He is exalting Himself to show compassion to you. For an Elohim of judgment is Yahweh, and where are you leaving your glory? Happy are all tarrying for him! ¹⁹ For holy people in Zion shall dwell, and in Jerusalem you shall not lament, yea not lament. Gracious, yea gracious will Yahweh be to you at the sound of your outcry, as He hears He will answer you. ²⁰ And Yahweh will give to you the bread of distress, and the water of oppression, yet no longer will He hem in your directors, and your eyes shall come to see your directors, ²¹ and your ears shall hear a word from behind you saying, "This is the way, go in it,in case you shall go right, and in case you shall go left." ²² And unclean shall you make the overlaying of your silver carvings, and the vestment of your golden molten image. You shall toss them away as what comes from a languishing woman, and as filth shall you reject it. ²³ And he will give rain for your seed with which you shall sow the ground, and bread, the income of the ground. And it comes to be sleek and stout. Your cattle will graze, in that day, in a widened meadow. ²⁴ And the domestic animals, and the donkeys serving the ground, fermented chopped straw shall eat, which is winnowed with the wind and with the winnower. ²⁵ And there shall come on every lofty mountain, and on every uplifted hill, rillets, runnels of water, in that day of the vast killing, when the towers fall. ²⁶ And the light of the white moonshine comes to be as the light of the warm sunshine, and the light of the warm sunshine will become sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when Yahweh will bind up the break of His people, and the transfixed of their smiting will He heal. ²⁷ Behold! The name of Yahweh shall come from afar. Consuming is His anger, and heavy is its load. His lips are full of menace, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. ²⁸ And his spirit, as a watercourse shall overflow unto the neck. It is dividing, to wave the nations into a wave of futility, and a bridle, leading astray, is on the cheeks of the peoples. ²⁹ A song is becoming yours, as of a night sanctifying a celebration, and rejoicing of heart, as one going with a flute to come into the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel. ³⁰ And caused to be heard by Yahweh is the splendor of His voice, and the dismay of His arm shall He show. In the turbulence of anger, and the blaze of a devouring fire, He will crash and storm, and do it with hail stones heavy. ³¹ For by the voice of Yahweh, Assyria is dismayed, with a club will He smite them. ³² And it comes that every passing of the disciplinary rod, which Yahweh will rest on them, is with tambourines and with harps. And with waving battles He fights against them, ³³ for arranged since yesterday was the pyre. Moreover it is prepared, yea prepared, for the king, He deepens, He widens its abode for fire and much wood. The breath of Yahweh, as a watercourse of sulphur, is consuming in it.