Isaiah 30

1“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;Cross-references: Num 32:14 · Deut 9:7 · Deut 9:24 · Deut 29:19 · 1Chr 10:13 · Ps 61:4 · +26 more

2who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!Cross-references: Num 27:21 · Deut 28:68 · Josh 9:14 · Judg 9:15 · 1Ki 22:7 · 2Ki 17:4 · +13 more

3Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.Cross-references: Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:5 · Isa 36:6 · Isa 45:16 · Jer 17:5 · Jer 37:5 · +2 more

4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.Cross-references: Num 13:22 · 2Ki 17:4 · Isa 19:11 · Isa 57:9 · Jer 43:7 · Ezek 30:14 · +3 more

5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”Cross-references: Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:7 · Isa 30:16 · Isa 31:1 · Jer 2:36

6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.Cross-references: Ex 1:14 · Ex 5:10 · Num 21:6 · Deut 4:20 · Deut 8:15 · Deut 17:16 · +14 more

7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · Ps 76:8 · Ps 118:8 · Isa 2:22 · Isa 7:4 · Isa 28:12 · +6 more

8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.Cross-references: Num 24:14 · Deut 4:30 · Deut 31:19 · Deut 31:22 · Deut 31:29 · Job 19:23 · +13 more

9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;Cross-references: Deut 31:27 · Deut 32:20 · 2Chr 33:10 · 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:29 · Prov 28:9 · +18 more

10who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:20 · 1Ki 22:8 · 1Ki 22:27 · 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 18:7 · 2Chr 24:19 · +25 more

11Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”Cross-references: Job 21:14 · Isa 29:21 · Amos 7:13 · John 15:23 · Rom 1:28 · Rom 1:30 · +2 more

12Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,Cross-references: 2Sam 12:9 · Ps 52:7 · Ps 62:10 · Isa 5:7 · Isa 5:24 · Isa 28:15 · +9 more

13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:30 · Job 36:18 · Ps 62:3 · Ps 73:19 · Prov 29:1 · Isa 29:5 · +4 more

14He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Job 27:22 · Ps 2:9 · Ps 31:12 · Isa 27:11 · Isa 47:14 · +15 more

15For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,Cross-references: 1Chr 5:20 · 2Chr 16:8 · 2Chr 32:8 · Ps 80:11 · Ps 125:1 · Isa 7:4 · +13 more

16but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.Cross-references: Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 25:5 · Ps 33:17 · Ps 147:10 · Isa 5:26 · +10 more

17One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.Cross-references: Lev 26:8 · Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 32:30 · Josh 23:10 · Neh 1:2 · +11 more

18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Deut 32:4 · 1Sam 2:3 · Job 35:14 · Ps 2:12 · Ps 27:14 · +50 more

19For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.Cross-references: Ps 50:15 · Isa 10:24 · Isa 12:3 · Isa 25:8 · Isa 35:10 · Isa 40:1 · +32 more

20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;Cross-references: Deut 16:3 · 1Ki 22:27 · 2Chr 18:26 · Ps 30:5 · Ps 74:9 · Ps 80:5 · +8 more

21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”Cross-references: Deut 5:32 · Josh 1:7 · Josh 23:6 · 2Ki 22:2 · Ps 25:8 · Ps 32:8 · +11 more

22You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”Cross-references: Ex 32:2 · Judg 17:3 · 2Ki 23:4 · 2Chr 31:1 · 2Chr 34:3 · Isa 2:20 · +11 more

23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.Cross-references: Gen 41:18 · Gen 41:26 · Gen 41:47 · Ps 36:8 · Ps 65:9 · Ps 104:13 · +20 more

24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.Cross-references: Gen 45:6 · Ex 34:21 · Deut 21:4 · Deut 25:4 · 1Sam 8:12 · Matt 3:12 · +2 more

25There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.Cross-references: Isa 2:14 · Isa 32:14 · Isa 34:2 · Isa 35:6 · Isa 37:36 · Isa 41:18 · +12 more

26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.Cross-references: Deut 32:39 · Job 5:18 · Isa 1:5 · Isa 11:9 · Isa 24:23 · Isa 60:19 · +9 more

27Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · Deut 33:2 · Ps 18:7 · Ps 79:5 · Isa 9:5 · Isa 10:5 · +11 more

28His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.Cross-references: 2Sam 17:14 · 1Ki 22:20 · 2Ki 19:28 · Job 39:17 · Ps 18:15 · Ps 32:9 · +20 more

29You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Lev 23:32 · Deut 16:6 · Deut 16:14 · Deut 32:4 · Deut 32:31 · +16 more

30Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.Cross-references: Ex 15:16 · Josh 10:11 · 1Sam 7:10 · Job 37:2 · Job 40:9 · Ps 2:5 · +24 more

31For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.Cross-references: Ps 17:13 · Ps 125:5 · Isa 9:4 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 10:15 · +5 more

32Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.Cross-references: Gen 31:27 · 1Sam 10:5 · Job 16:12 · Job 21:11 · Ps 81:1 · Isa 2:19 · +6 more

33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · 2Ki 23:10 · Ps 40:5 · Isa 14:9 · Isa 30:27 · Isa 37:38 · +12 more