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Josh 10:40">d</a> “Through a land of trouble, dryness,<a href="#ftn" title="30:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack dryness; cf. Isa 41:18">e</a> and distress, of lionesses and roaring lions, where there is no water,<a href="#ftn" title="30:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read from whence come">f</a> a land of vipers and darting snakes, he carries<a href="#ftn" title="30:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read they carry">g</a> their riches on donkeys’ backs, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot benefit them, <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-7.htm">7</a>to Egypt, which gives help that is worthless and useless. Therefore I call her, ‘Rahab,<a href="#ftn" title="30:7 The Heb. word Rahab means The One who Storms; i.e. Egypt; cf. Isa 51:9; Ps 87:4">h</a> who just sits still.’” The Illusions of False Prophecy<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-8.htm">8</a>“Go now, and write it down<a href="#ftn" title="30:8 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsac LXX read write down">i</a> on a tablet in their presence, inscribing it in a book, so that for times to come it may be an everlasting witness. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-9.htm">9</a>For they are a rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to hear the LORD’s instruction. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-10.htm">10</a>They say to the seers, ‘Don’t see visions,’ and to the prophets, ‘Don’t give us visions of what is right! Instead, tell us welcome things, prophesy illusions, <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-11.htm">11</a>get out of the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel.”<a href="#ftn" title="30:11 Lit. bring to an end the Holy One from before us.">j</a> Rejecting God’s Message<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-12.htm">12</a>Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you reject this message, and put your trust in oppression and enjoy it,<a href="#ftn" title="30:12 Apparent meaning 1QIsaa; MT reads and are perverse">k</a> and since you rely on it, <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-13.htm">13</a>therefore, for you this sin will become like a breach in a high wall that is about to collapse, bulging out, and whose crash comes suddenly—in an instant. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-14.htm">14</a>Its breaking will be like when potters’ vessels are broken, shattered so ruthlessly<a href="#ftn" title="30:14 Lit. broken—they do not take pity; so 1QIsaa; MT reads broken—he does not take pity">l</a> that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found for taking fire from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-15.htm">15</a>For this is what the LORD<a href="#ftn" title="30:15 So 1QIsaa">m</a> GOD,<a href="#ftn" title="30:15 So 1QIsaa corrector">n</a> the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest you will be saved; in staying calm and trusting will be your strength. But you refused. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-16.htm">16</a>Instead, you said, ‘No! We’ll escape on horses!’ Therefore, you’ll flee away. And you said, ‘We’ll ride off on swift steeds!’ Therefore your pursuers will be swift. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-17.htm">17</a>A thousand will flee at the threat of one; and run away, pursued by<a href="#ftn" title="30:17 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read away at the threat of">o</a> five, until you are left like a flagpole on a mountaintop,<a href="#ftn" title="30:17 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads the mountaintop">p</a> like a banner on a hill.” Restoration is Promised to Israel<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-18.htm">18</a>“Nevertheless, the LORD will wait so he can be gracious to you; and thus he will rise up to show you mercy. For the LORD is a God of justice. How blessed are all those who wait for him.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-19.htm">19</a>Indeed, you people who live in Zion and in Jerusalem,<a href="#ftn" title="30:19 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads at Jerusalem">q</a> you<a href="#ftn" title="30:19 So 1QIsaa (pl.); MT (sing.)">r</a> will weep no more. How gracious the LORD<a href="#ftn" title="30:19 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he">s</a> will be to you at the sound of your cry! As soon as he hears it, he will answer you. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-20.htm">20</a>And although the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water<a href="#ftn" title="30:20 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks the correct Heb. construct">t</a> of affliction, your teachers won’t hide themselves<a href="#ftn" title="30:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads himself">u</a> anymore, but your own eyes will see your teachers. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-21.htm">21</a>And whether you turn to the right or turn to the left, your ears will hear a message behind you: “This is the way, walk in it.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-22.htm">22</a>Then you will defile your carved idols that are overlaid with silver and your images plated with gold. You’ll throw them away like disgusting objects<a href="#ftn" title="30:22 Lit. like menstrual rags">v</a> and say to them, “Away with you!” <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-23.htm">23</a>He will also provide rain for your seed that you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the ground will be<a href="#ftn" title="30:23 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads and it will be">w</a> rich and abundant. At that time,<a href="#ftn" title="30:23 Lit. On that day">x</a> your cattle will graze in broad meadows, <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-24.htm">24</a>and oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned<a href="#ftn" title="30:24 Lit. salted ">y</a> fodder that workers will winnow with shovels and forks. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-25.htm">25</a>And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks and canals<a href="#ftn" title="30:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads streams">z</a> running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-26.htm">26</a>Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the sun’s light will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days,<a href="#ftn" title="30:26 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks like the light of seven full days">aa</a> when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-27.htm">27</a>See, the name of the LORD comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-28.htm">28</a>His breath is like an overflowing torrent, and it rises right up to the neck, to shake<a href="#ftn" title="30:28 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to sift; LXX reads to confuse">bb</a> the nations in the sieve of destruction, and to place in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-29.htm">29</a>You will have songs as on nights when people celebrate a holy festival,<a href="#ftn" title="30:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one celebrates a holy festival">cc</a> and gladness of heart, as when they set out with flutes to go to the LORD’s mountain, to the Rock of Israel. God’s Judgment on Assyria<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-30.htm">30</a>And the LORD will make heard—yes, he will make heard<a href="#ftn" title="30:30 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read heard only once">dd</a> —his majestic voice, and make his arm<a href="#ftn" title="30:30 i.e. the Messiah">ee</a> seen descending in raging anger and in a flame of consuming fire, with a cloudburst, thunderstorm and hailstones. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-31.htm">31</a>Indeed, the Assyrians will be shattered at the LORD’s voice, when he strikes them with his scepter. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-32.htm">32</a>And every stroke of his punishing rod<a href="#ftn" title="30:32 So MTmss; 1QIsaa reads the rod of his foundation; MT reads the rod of foundation">ff</a> that the LORD brings down on them will be to the sound of tambourines and harps, as he fights against her<a href="#ftn" title="30:32 So 1QIsaa MT; MTqere, mss read against them">gg</a> in battle with a brandished arm. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/30-33.htm">33</a>For the Fire Pit<a href="#ftn" title="30:33 Lit. the Topheth; i.e. a fire pit near Jerusalem where the Canaanite deity Molech was worshipped">hh</a> has long been prepared; truly it is for the king; it will indeed be made ready.<a href="#ftn" title="30:33 So 1QIsaa; MT reads it is made ready for the king; cf. LXX">ii</a> And<a href="#ftn" title="30:33 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks And">jj</a> its pyre will be deep and wide, with abundant fire and wood. Like a stream of burning sulfur, the breath of the LORD will set it ablaze.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><A name="ftn"></a>Footnotes: a 30:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read disgrace b 30:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read For even though c 30:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Everyone comes to shame d 30:6 i.e. southern regions of the Sinai peninsula; cf. Josh 10:40 e 30:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack dryness; cf. Isa 41:18 f 30:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read from whence come g 30:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read they carry h 30:7 The Heb. word Rahab means The One who Storms; i.e. Egypt; cf. Isa 51:9; Ps 87:4 i 30:8 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsac LXX read write down j 30:11 Lit. bring to an end the Holy One from before us. k 30:12 Apparent meaning 1QIsaa; MT reads and are perverse l 30:14 Lit. broken—they do not take pity; so1QIsaa; MT reads broken—he does not take pity m 30:15 So 1QIsaa n 30:15 So 1QIsaa corrector o 30:17 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read away at the threat of p 30:17 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads the mountaintop q 30:19 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads at Jerusalem r 30:19 So 1QIsaa (pl.); MT (sing.) s 30:19 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he t 30:20 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks the correct Heb. construct u 30:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads himself v 30:22 Lit. like menstrual rags w 30:23 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads and it will be x 30:23 Lit. On that day y 30:24 Lit. salted z 30:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads streams aa 30:26 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks like the light of seven full days bb 30:28 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to sift; LXX reads to confuse cc 30:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one celebrates a holy festival dd 30:30 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read heard only once ee 30:30 i.e. the Messiah ff 30:32 So MTmss; 1QIsaa reads the rod of his foundation; MT reads the rod of foundation gg 30:32 So 1QIsaa MT; MTqere, mss read against them hh 30:33 Lit. the Topheth; i.e. a fire pit near Jerusalem where the Canaanite deity Molech was worshipped ii 30:33 So 1QIsaa; MT reads it is made ready for the king; cf. 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