Isaiah 30 (NET)

Isaiah 30:1¹“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the Lord, “those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:2²They travel down to Egypt without seeking my will, seeking Pharaoh’s protection, and looking for safety in Egypt’s protective shade.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:3³But Pharaoh’s protection will bring you nothing but shame, and the safety of Egypt’s protective shade nothing but humiliation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:4⁴Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:5⁵all will be put to shame because of a nation that cannot help them, who cannot give them aid or help, but only shame and disgrace.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:6⁶This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:7⁷Egypt is totally incapable of helping. For this reason I call her “Proud one who is silenced.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:8⁸Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:9⁹For these are rebellious people— they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord ’s law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:10¹⁰They say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!” and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things; relate deceptive messages.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:11¹¹Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:12¹²For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:13¹³So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:14¹⁴It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:15¹⁵For this is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me, you would find strength, but you are unwilling.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:16¹⁶You say, ‘No, we will flee on horses,’ so you will indeed flee. You say, ‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:17¹⁷One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:18¹⁸For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the Lord is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:19¹⁹For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem you will weep no more. When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:20²⁰The Lord will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:21²¹You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying, “This is the correct way, walk in it,” whether you are heading to the right or the left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:22²²You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, “Get out!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:23²³He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:24²⁴The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:25²⁵On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:26²⁶The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare, and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:27²⁷Look, the name of the Lord comes from a distant place in raging anger and awesome splendor. He speaks angrily, and his word is like destructive fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:28²⁸His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:29²⁹You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:30³⁰The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:31³¹Indeed, the Lord ’s shout will shatter Assyria; he will beat them with a club.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:32³²Every blow from his punishing cudgel with which the Lord will beat them will be accompanied by music from the tambourine and harp, and he will attack them with his weapons.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 30:33³³For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord ’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s