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1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the Lord ,
“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,
And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
In order to add sin to sin;
2Who proceed down to Egypt
Without consulting Me,
To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh,
And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame,
And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
4“For their officials are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
5“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who do not benefit them,
Who are not a help or benefit, but a source of shame and also disgrace.”
6The pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev:
Through a land of distress and anguish,
From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who will not benefit them;
7Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have called her
“Rahab who has been exterminated.”
8Now go, write it on a tablet in their presence
And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it may serve in the time to come
As a witness forever.
9For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who refuse to listen
To the instruction of the Lord ;
10Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions ”;
And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy the truth to us.
Speak to us pleasant words,
Prophesy illusions.
11“Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,
Stop speaking before us about the Holy One of Israel!”
12Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and crookedness, and have relied on them,
13Therefore this wrongdoing will be to you
Like a breach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,
14Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,
So ruthlessly shattered
That a shard will not be found among its pieces
To take fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.”
15For this is what the Lord God , the Holy One of Israel, has said:[#30:15 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord]
“In repentance and rest you will be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength.”
But you were not willing,
16And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses!”
Therefore you shall flee!
“And we will ride on swift horses! ”
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
17One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;
You will flee at the threat of five,
Until you are left like a signal post on a mountain top,
And like a flag on a hill.
18¶Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you,[#30:18 Lit waits]
And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who long for Him.
19For, you people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.[#30:19 MT For a people will inhabit Zion, Jerusalem]
20Although the Lord has given you bread of deprivation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher, will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will see your Teacher.
21Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
22And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”[#30:22 Lit it “Go out”]
23Then He will give you rain for your seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful; on that day your livestock will graze in a wide pasture.[#30:23 Lit fatness; #30:23 Lit fat]
24Also the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned feed, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.[#30:24 Lit sorrel-seasoned; #30:24 Lit one winnows]
25And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.[#30:25 Lit canals, streams of water]
26And the light of the full 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, on the day the Lord binds up the fracture of His people and heals the wound He has inflicted.[#30:26 Lit of His blow]
27¶Behold, the name of the Lord comes from a remote place;[#30:27 Lit distance]
His anger is burning and dense with smoke;
His lips are filled with indignation,
And His tongue is like a consuming fire;
28His breath is like an overflowing river,
Which reaches to the neck,
To shake the nations back and forth in a sieve,
And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads astray.
29You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival,[#30:29 Lit the song]
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,
To go to the mountain of the Lord , to the Rock of Israel.
30And the Lord will cause His voice of authority to be heard,[#30:30 Lit the majesty of His voice]
And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour, and hailstones.
31For at the voice of the Lord Assyria will be terrified,
When He strikes with the rod.
32And every blow of the rod of punishment,[#30:32 Lit passing; #30:32 Lit staff of foundation]
Which the Lord will lay on him,
Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres;
And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.
33For Topheth has long been ready,[#30:33 I.e., the place of human sacrifice to Molech]
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the Lord , like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.