Yeshayahu 30 ישעיהו ל׳

Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that prepare a plan but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

that walk to go down into Miż­rayim, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Par῾o, and to trust in the shadow of Miżrayim!

Therefore shall the strength of Par῾o be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Miżrayim your confusion.

For his princes were at Żo῾an, and his ambassadors came to Ḥanes.

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

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 the venomous flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasurers upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

For Miżrayim shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called this people, Boasters in sitting still.

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the Tora of the Lord:

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy delusions:

get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Yisra᾽el to cease from before us.

Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and depend on that:

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

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 shred sufficient for taking fire from the hearth, or for taking water out of the cistern.

For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el; In ease and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you did not wish it.

But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee; and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left like a flagstaff upon the top of a mountain, and as a banner on a hill.

And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: happy are all they that wait for him.

For a people that dwell in Żiyyon, even in Yerushalayim: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious to thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

And the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; yet thy teacher shall not withdraw himself any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teacher:

and thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

You shall defile also the silver plating of thy carved idols, and the gold binding of thy molten images: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous thing; thou shalt say to it, Get thee hence.

Then shall he give the rain for thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground with that; 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.

The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

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, on the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.

Behold the name of the Lord comes from far; burning with his anger and in a thick column of smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and to put a bridle on the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Yisra᾽el.

And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the descending blow of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with cloudburst, and tempest, and hailstones.

For through the voice of the Lord shall Ashshur be beaten down; with a rod will he smite him.

And in every place where the appointed staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambourines and lyres: and in battle of shaking will he fight with them.

For its hearth is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared: he has made it deep and large: its bonfire is of much fire and wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.