30 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 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. 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.