| 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: |
| 2 | 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! |
| 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. |
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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. |
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7 | For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. |
| 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. |
| 12 | Wherefore thus saith the Holy One
of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and stay thereon: |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 22 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
