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Chapter 30 |
| 1 | Woe to the
rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that
cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to
sin: |
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That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the
shadow of Egypt! |
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3 | Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your
shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. |
| 4 | For his
princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. |
| 5 | They were
all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit,
but a shame, and also a reproach. |
| 6 | The burden of the beasts of the
south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old
lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the
shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a
people that shall not profit them. |
| 7 | For the Egyptians shall help in
vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength
is to sit still. |
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8 | Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it
in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: |
| 9 |
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear
the law of the LORD: |
| 10 | Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits: |
| 11 | Get you out of the way, turn aside out of
the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. |
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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and
trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: |
| 13 | Therefore
this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high
wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. |
| 14 | And he shall
break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he
shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd
to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
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| 15 | For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and
rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:
and ye would not. |
| 16 | But ye said, No; for we will flee upon
horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore
shall they that pursue you be swift. |
| 17 | One thousand shall flee at
the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a
beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. |
| 18 | And
therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore
will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of
judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. |
| 19 | For the
people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be
very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will
answer thee. |
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20 | And though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: |
| 21 | And
thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in
it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. |
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Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the
ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a
menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. |
| 23 | Then
shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and
bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that
day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. |
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24 | The oxen likewise and
the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been
winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. |
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25 | And there shall be upon
every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in
the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. |
| 26 | Moreover the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun
shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD
bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their
wound. |
| 27
| Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning
with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: |
| 28 | And his
breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift
the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws
of the people, causing them to err. |
| 29 | Ye shall have a song, as in
the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one
goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of
Israel. |
| 30
| And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,
and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger,
and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and
hailstones. |
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31 | For through the voice of the LORD shall the
Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. |
| 32 | And in every
place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him,
it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight
with it. |
| 33
| For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much
wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. |
