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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 30</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/30.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//isaiah/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/isaiah/">Isaiah</a> > Isaiah 30</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/29.htm" title="Isaiah 29">◄</a> Isaiah 30 <a href="../isaiah/31.htm" title="Isaiah 31">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/isaiah/30.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/isaiah/30.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/isaiah/30.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/isaiah/30.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/30.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/isaiah/30.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/30.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Worthless Treaty with Egypt<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Woe to the rebellious children,” <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD, <p class="indent1">“to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, <p class="indent2"> who form an alliance, but against My will, <p class="indent2"> heaping up sin upon sin. <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They set out to go down to Egypt <p class="indent2"> without asking My advice, <p class="indent1"> to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection <p class="indent2"> and take refuge in Egypt’s shade. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, <p class="indent2"> and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For though their princes are at Zoan <p class="indent2"> and their envoys have arrived in Hanes, <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>everyone will be put to shame <p class="indent2"> because of a people useless to them. <p class="indent1"> They cannot be of help; <p class="indent2"> they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.” <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: <p class="indent1stline"> Through a land of hardship and distress, <p class="indent2"> of lioness and lion, <p class="indent2"> of viper and flying serpent, <p class="indent1"> they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys <p class="indent2"> and their treasures on the humps of camels, <p class="indent2"> to a people of no profit to them. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Egypt’s help is futile and empty; <p class="indent2"> therefore I have called her <p class="indent2"> Rahab Who Sits Still.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence <p class="indent2"> and inscribe it on a scroll; <p class="indent1"> it will be for the days to come, <p class="indent2"> a witness forever and ever. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>These are rebellious people, deceitful children, <p class="indent2"> children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They say to the seers, <p class="indent2">“Stop seeing visions!” <p class="indent1"> and to the prophets, <p class="indent2">“Do not prophesy to us the truth! <p class="indent1"> Speak to us pleasant words; <p class="indent2"> prophesy illusions. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Get out of the way; turn off the road. <p class="indent2"> Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: <p class="indent1stline">“Because you have rejected this message, <p class="indent2"> trusting in oppression and relying on deceit, <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, <p class="indent2"> a bulge in a high wall, <p class="indent1"> whose collapse will come suddenly—<p class="indent2"> in an instant! <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, <p class="indent2"> shattered so that no fragment can be found. <p class="indent1"> Not a shard will be found in the dust <p class="indent2"> large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth <p class="indent2"> or to skim the water from a cistern.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><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: <p class="indent1stline">“By repentance and rest <p class="indent2"> you would be saved; <p class="indent1"> your strength would lie in quiet confidence—<p class="indent2"> but you were not willing.” <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” <p class="indent2"> Therefore you will flee! <p class="indent1">“We will ride swift horses,” <p class="indent2"> but your pursuers will be faster. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>A thousand will flee at the threat of one; <p class="indent2"> at the threat of five you will all flee, <p class="indent1"> until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, <p class="indent2"> like a banner on a hill. <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">God Will Be Gracious<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; <p class="indent2"> therefore He rises to show you compassion, <p class="indent1"> for the LORD is a just God. <p class="indent2"> Blessed are all who wait for Him. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.” <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!” <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted. <A name="28"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, <p class="indent2"> with burning anger and dense smoke. <p class="indent1"> His lips are full of fury, <p class="indent2"> and His tongue is like a consuming fire. <A name="29"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>His breath is like a rushing torrent <p class="indent2"> that rises to the neck. <p class="indent1"> He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; <p class="indent2"> He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray. <A name="30"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>You will sing <p class="indent2"> as on the night of a holy festival, <p class="indent1"> and your heart will rejoice <p class="indent2"> like one who walks to the music of a flute, <p class="indent1"> going up to the mountain of the LORD, <p class="indent2"> to the Rock of Israel. <A name="31"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard <p class="indent2"> and His mighty arm to be revealed, <p class="indent1"> striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, <p class="indent2"> and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. <A name="32"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; <p class="indent2"> He will strike them with His scepter. <A name="33"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And with every stroke of the rod of punishment<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent2"> that the LORD brings down on them, <p class="indent1"> the tambourines and lyres will sound <p class="indent2"> as He battles with weapons brandished. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For Topheth has long been prepared; <p class="indent2"> it has been made ready for the king. <p class="indent1"> Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, <p class="indent2"> with plenty of fire and wood. <p class="indent1"> The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, <p class="indent2"> sets it ablaze.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>Rahab-hem-shebeth</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac; MT <i>the rod of foundation</i><span class="thin"> </span>; DSS <i>the rod of His foundation</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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