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30 : 1 Ah,stubborn children,declares theLord,who carry out a plan, but not mine,and who makean alliance,but not of my Spirit,that they may add sin to sin;
30 : 2 who set out to go down to Egypt,without asking for my direction,to take refuge in the protection of Pharaohand to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
30 : 3 Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
30 : 4 For though his officials are atZoanandhis envoys reachHanes,
30 : 5 everyone comes to shamethrougha people that cannot profit them,that brings neither help nor profit,but shame and disgrace.
30 : 6 Anoracle onthe beasts ofthe Negeb.Through a land of trouble and anguish,from where come the lioness and the lion,the adder and theflying fiery serpent,they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,and their treasures on the humps of camels,to a people that cannot profit them.
30 : 7 Egypt'shelp is worthless and empty;therefore I have called herRahab who sits still.
30 : 8 And now, go,write it before them on a tabletand inscribe it in a book,that it may be for the time to comeas a witness forever.
30 : 9 For they are a rebellious people,lying children,children unwilling to hearthe instruction of theLord;
30 : 10 who say tothe seers,Do not see,and to the prophets,Do not prophesy to us what is right;speak to ussmooth things,prophesy illusions,
30 : 11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.
30 : 12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,Because you despise this wordand trust inoppression and perversenessand rely on them,
30 : 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to youlike a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse,whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
30 : 14 and its breaking islike that of a potter's vesselthat is smashed so ruthlesslythat among its fragments not a shard is foundwith which to take fire from the hearth,or to dip up water out of the cistern.
30 : 15 For thus said the LordGod, the Holy One of Israel,Inreturningandrest you shall be saved;in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.But you were unwilling,
30 : 16 and you said,No! We will flee uponhorses;therefore you shall flee away;and,We will ride upon swift steeds;therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
30 : 17 A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;at the threat of five you shall flee,till you are leftlike a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,like a signal on a hill.
30 : 18 Therefore theLordwaits to be gracious to you,and therefore heexalts himself to show mercy to you.For theLordis a God of justice;blessed are all those who wait for him.
30 : 19 For a people shall dwellin Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.
30 : 20 And though the Lord give you thebread of adversity and thewater of affliction,yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
30 : 21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,This isthe way, walk in it,when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
30 : 22 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images.You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them,Be gone!
30 : 23 And he will giverain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous.In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,
30 : 24 andthe oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
30 : 25 Andon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter,when the towers fall.
30 : 26 Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day whentheLordbinds upthe brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
30 : 27 Behold, the name of theLordcomes from afar,burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;his lips are full of fury,and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
30 : 28 his breath islike an overflowing streamthat reaches up to the neck;to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,and to place on the jaws of the peoplesa bridle that leads astray.
30 : 29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart,as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go tothe mountain of theLord, tothe Rock of Israel.
30 : 30 And theLordwill cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious angerand a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburstand storm and hailstones.
30 : 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of theLord,when he strikes with his rod.
30 : 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that theLordlays on themwill be to the sound of tambourines and lyres.Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.
30 : 33 Fora burning placehas long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready,its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance;the breath of theLord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.