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1Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord ,[#v 9 ; Isa 8.11, 12; 29.15]
who carry out a plan but not mine;
who make an alliance but against my will,
adding sin to sin;
2who set out to go down to Egypt[#Num 27.21; Josh 9.14; 1 Kings 22.7; Isa 31.1; Jer 21.2]
without asking for my counsel,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt.
3Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame,[#Isa 20.5; Jer 37.3, 5]
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.
4For though his officials are at Zoan[#Isa 19.11]
and his envoys reach Hanes,
5everyone comes to shame[#v 7 ; Jer 2.36]
through a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
only shame and disgrace.
6An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb.[#Isa 8.22; 14.29; 15.7; 46.1, 2]
Through a land of trouble and distress,
of lioness and roaring lion,
of viper and flying 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.
7For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;[#v 15 ; Jer 37.7]
therefore I have called her,
“Rahab who sits still.”
8Go now, write it before them on a tablet,[#Isa 8.1; Hab 2.2]
and inscribe it on a scroll,
so that it may be for the time to come
as a witness forever.
9For they are a rebellious people,[#v 1 ; Isa 24.5; 28.15]
faithless children,
children who will not hear
the instruction of the Lord ;
10who say to the seers, “Do not see,”[#1 Kings 22.8, 13; Isa 5.20; 29.10]
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things;
prophesy illusions;
11leave the way; turn aside from the path;[#Job 21.14]
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:[#Isa 5.24; 59.13]
Because you reject this word
and put your trust in oppression and deceit
and rely on them,
13therefore this iniquity shall become for you[#Ps 62.3; Isa 26.21; 29.5]
like a break in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;
14its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel[#Ps 2.9; Jer 19.10, 11]
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a sherd is found
for taking fire from the hearth
or dipping water out of the cistern.
15For thus said the Lord God , the Holy One of Israel:[#Isa 7.4; 28.12; 32.17]
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.
But you refused
16and said,[#Isa 31.1, 3]
“No! We will flee upon horses”—
therefore you shall flee!
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”—
therefore your pursuers shall be swift!
17A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;[#Lev 26.8; Deut 28.25; 32.30; Josh 23.10]
at the threat of five you shall flee
until you are left
like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
like a signal on a hill.
18Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you;[#Isa 5.16; 33.5; 42.14]
therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.
19O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.[#Isa 60.20; 61.1–3; 65.9; Mt 7.7–11]
20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any longer, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.[#1 Kings 22.27; Ps 74.9; 80.5; Am 8.11]
21And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”[#Prov 3.6; Isa 29.24; 35.8, 9]
22Then you will defile your silver-covered idols and your gold-plated images. You will scatter them like impure things; you will say to them, “Away with you!”[#Isa 2.20; 31.7; 46.6; Mt 4.10]
23He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures,[#Ps 65.9–13; Isa 32.20; 65.21, 22]
24and the oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat silage that has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
25On every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water—on a day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on the day when the Lord binds up the injuries of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.[#Isa 1.6; 60.19, 20; 61.1; Jer 33.6; Rev 21.23; 22.5]
27See, the name of the Lord comes from far away,[#Isa 10.5, 13, 17; 59.19; 66.15]
his anger burning and his burden heavy;
his lips are full of indignation,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
28his breath is like an overflowing stream[#Isa 8.8; 11.4; 37.29; 2 Thess 2.8]
that reaches up to the neck—
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction
and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them astray.
29You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord , to the Rock of Israel.[#Ps 42.4; Isa 2.3; 17.10]
30And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.[#Isa 28.2; 32.19]
31The Assyrian will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord when he strikes with his rod.[#Isa 31.8]
32And every stroke of the staff of punishment that the Lord lays upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres with dancing; with brandished arm he will fight with him.[#Isa 10.24; Jer 31.4; Ezek 32.10; #30.32 Heb mss Syr: MT foundation; #30.32 Cn: Heb and with battles]
33For his burning place has long been prepared, also for the king; its pyre is made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord , like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.[#vv 27, 28; Isa 34.9; Jer 7.31; 19.6; #30.33 Or Topheth; #30.33 Or Molech]