XXX. 1 Ah, the rebellious sons, saith the LORD, that take counsel, and not of me ; and weave a web, and not with 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 stronghold of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
3 Therefore shall the stronghold of. Pharaoh be to yOu a shame, I and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes are at Zoan, and his messengers have reached Hanes.
5 All shall be. ashamed of a people · shall not profit them, not for a help nor profit, but for a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south country. Through a land of distress and anguish, whence are the lioness and lion, viper and flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulder of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit
7 And Egypt, vain and empty will be their help: therefore I cry concerning this, Rahab are they, a sitting still.
8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and inscribe it in a book, and let it be for an after day, for ever and ever:
9 For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, Ye shall not see, and to them that have vision, Have visions not of right things, speak unto us smooth things, see delusive visions.
11 Remove you out of the way, turn aside out of the path; make to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.
12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and crookedness, and stay thereon;
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as afalling breach, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometb suddenly, in a moment.
14 And he shall break it as a ’s jar is broken, shivering it unsparingly; and there shall not be found a sherd among the shivered fragments thereof, to take fire. from the hearth, or to draw water from a cistern.
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 were unwilling.
16 And 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 from before the rebuke of one, before the rebuke of five shall ye flee, till ye be left as a mast upon the top of a mountain, and like the ensign on the 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; happy are all that wait for him.
19 For a people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thdu shalt weep no mOre; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; as he heareth it, he answereth thee.
20 And the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction, and water of oppression; and thy teachers shall not withdraw any more, and 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 And ye shall defile the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the overlaying of thy molten images of gold; thou shalt scatter them as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Begone!
23 And he shall give. the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the increase of the ground, and - it shall be rich and fat: in that day shall thy cattle feed in a broad pasture.
24 And the oxen and. the young asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be, upon every high mountain, and on every uplifted hill, channels and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.
26 And 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 hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of its wound.
27 Behold, the Name of the LORD cometh from far; burning his anger, and denseness of rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue like devouring fire.
28 And his breath is as an overflowing stream, dividing even to the neck, to shake the nations in the shaking sieve of vanity; and a bridle that leadeth astray shall be in the jaws of peoples.
29 Your song shall be like the night When a feast is kept holy; and joy of heart, like his that marcheth with the flute, to go into the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
30 And the Lord shall cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and the lighting down of his arm to be seen, with fury of anger, and flame of devouring fire; scattering, rainstorm, and hailstone. . ’
31 For at the voice of the Lord shall Asshur be affrighted ; with the rod shall he smite.
32 every passing of the staff of destiny, which the Lord shall make to light on him, shall be with tabrets and harps; and with waving wars shall he fight against her. ’
33 For a burning place is made ready from yesterday; even it is prepared for the king; he hath made it deep, and hath made it broad; its pile fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, bumeth against it.
Isaias. . ed. Richard Rusden Ottley. Germany. 2016.
Sponsored by University of Leipzig.
Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.