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<poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Therefore the safety <i>and</i> protection of Pharaoh will be your shame <t><p class="indent1">And the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation <i>and</i> disgrace. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“For his princes are at Zoan <t><p class="indent1">And his ambassadors arrive at Hanes [in Egypt]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“All will be ashamed because of a people (the Egyptians) who cannot benefit them, <t><p class="indent1">Who are not a help or benefit, but a shame and also a disgrace.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>A [mournful, inspired] oracle (<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>a burden to be carried) concerning the beasts of the Negev (the South): <p class="indent1stline">Through a land of trouble and anguish, <t><p class="indent1">From <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>where <i>come</i> lioness and lion, viper and [fiery] flying serpent, <t><p class="indent1">They carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys <t><p class="indent1">And their treasures on the humps of camels, <t><p class="indent1">To a people (Egyptians) who cannot benefit them. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For Egypt’s help is worthless and good for nothing. <t><p class="indent1">Therefore, I have called her <t><p class="indent1">“Rahab Who Has Been Exterminated.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now, go, write it on a tablet before them <t><p class="indent1">And inscribe it on a scroll, <t><p class="indent1">So that it may serve in the time to come <t><p class="indent1">As a witness [against them] forevermore. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this is a rebellious people, lying sons, <t><p class="indent1">Sons who refuse to listen to <t><p class="indent1">The law <i>and</i> instruction of the LORD; <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who say to the seers, “You must not see <i>visions from God”;</i> <t><p class="indent1">And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us what is right! <t><p class="indent1">Speak to us pleasant things <i>and</i> smooth words, <t><p class="indent1">Prophesy [deceitful] illusions [that we will enjoy]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Get out of the [true] way, turn aside from the path [of God], <t><p class="indent1">Stop bothering us with the Holy One of Israel.” <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, the Holy One of Israel says this, <p class="indent1stline">“Because you have refused <i>and</i> rejected this word [of Mine] <t><p class="indent1">And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore this wickedness [this sin, this injustice, this wrongdoing] will be to you <t><p class="indent1">Like a crack [in a wall] about to fall, <t><p class="indent1">A bulge in a high wall, <t><p class="indent1">Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar, <t><p class="indent1">Crushed so savagely <t><p class="indent1">that there cannot be found among its pieces a potsherd [large enough] <t><p class="indent1">To take [coals of] fire from a fireplace, <t><p class="indent1">Or to scoop water from a cistern.” <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel has said this, <p class="indent1stline">“In returning [to Me] and rest you shall be saved, <t><p class="indent1">In quietness and confident trust is your strength.” <t><p class="indent1">But you were not willing, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And you said, “No! We will flee on horses!” <t><p class="indent1">Therefore you will flee [from your enemies]! <t><p class="indent1">And [you said], “We will ride on swift horses!” <t><p class="indent1">Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>A thousand <i>of you will flee</i> at the threat of one <i>man;</i> <t><p class="indent1">You will flee at the threat of five, <t><p class="indent1">Until you are left like a flag on the top of a mountain, <t><p class="indent1">And like a signal on a hill. <p class="hdg">God Is Gracious and Just</p><poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore the LORD waits [expectantly] <i>and</i> longs to be gracious to you, <t><p class="indent1">And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. <t><p class="indent1"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>For the LORD is a God of justice; <t><p class="indent1">Blessed (happy, fortunate) are all those who long for Him [since He will never fail them]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will most certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry for help; when He hears it, He will answer you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of oppression, yet your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will [constantly] see your Teacher. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And you will defile your carved images overlaid with silver, and your cast images plated with gold. You will scatter them like a bloodstained <i>cloth,</i> and will say to them, “Be gone!” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then He will give you rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread [grain] from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your livestock will graze in large <i>and</i> roomy pastures. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Also the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams of water on the day of the great slaughter (the day of the LORD), when the towers fall [and all His enemies are destroyed]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times <i>brighter,</i> like the light of seven days [concentrated in one], in the day the LORD binds up the fracture of His people and heals the wound He has inflicted [because of their sins]. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now look, the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>name of the LORD comes from far away, <t><p class="indent1">Burning with His anger, and heavy with <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[g]</a></span>smoke; <t><p class="indent1">His lips are full of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[h]</a></span>indignation, <t><p class="indent1">And His tongue is like a consuming fire. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>His breath is like an overflowing river, <t><p class="indent1">Which reaches to the neck, <t><p class="indent1">To sift the nations back and forth in a sieve [of disaster], <t><p class="indent1">And <i>to put</i> in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>You will have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, <t><p class="indent1">And joy of heart as when one marches [in procession] with a flute, <t><p class="indent1">To go to the [temple on the] mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the LORD will make His majestic voice heard, <t><p class="indent1">And show the descending of His arm [striking] in [His] fierce anger, <t><p class="indent1">And in the flame of a devouring fire, <t><p class="indent1">In the crashing sound <i>of heavy rain,</i> cloudburst, and hailstones. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For at the voice of the LORD the Assyrians will be terrified, <t><p class="indent1"><i>When</i> He strikes [them] with the rod. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And every blow of the rod of punishment, <t><p class="indent1">Which the LORD will lay on them, <t><p class="indent1">Will be to <i>the music of Israel’s</i> tambourines and lyres; <t><p class="indent1">And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight Assyria. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[i]</a></span>Topheth [in Hinnom] has long been ready; <t><p class="indent1">Indeed, it has been prepared for the [Assyrian] king. <t><p class="indent1">He has made it deep and wide, <t><p class="indent1">A pit of fire with plenty of wood; <t><p class="indent1">The breath of the LORD, like a river of brimstone (blazing sulfur), kindles <i>and</i> fans it.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>My mouth</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>them</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> The ancient rabbis posed the question of why God waits to bring in the kingdom, if both He and Israel desire it. Their answer was that God’s attribute of justice delays it, i.e. that Israel is not yet deserving of it. Nevertheless, they maintained, it is meritorious to look forward to it, and those who do will be blessed (rewarded).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> MT reads <i>For a people will dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> The revelation of the power and glory <i>and</i> brilliance of God.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[g]</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Lit <i>lifting up,</i> possibly referring to clouds.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[h]</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Lit <i>cursing</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[i]</span> <span class="fnverse">33</span> A pagan site where children were burned as sacrifices to Molech, a Semitic god.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/29.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 29"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 29" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/31.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 31"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 31" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>