30:1 Woe to the apostate children, saith the
Lord: ye have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to
add sins to sins:
30:2 [even] they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not
enquired of me, that they might be helped byPharaoh, and protected by the
Egyptians.
30:3 For the protection ofPharaohh shall be to you a disgrace, and [there
shall be] a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.
30:4 For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.
30:5 In vain shall they labour [in seeking] to a people, which shall not
profit them for help, but [shall be] for a shame and reproach.
30:6 THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress,
[where are] the lion and lion's whelp, thence [come] also asps, and the
young of flying asps, [there shall they be] who bore their wealth on asses
and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.
30:7 The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your
consolation is vain.
30:8 Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for
these things shall be for [many long] days, and even for ever.
30:9 For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the
law of Elohim:
30:10 who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see
visions, Speak [them] not to us, but speak and report to us another error;
30:11 and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove
from us the oracle of Israel.
30:12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye have refused
to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because thou hast
murmured, and been confident in this respect:
30:13 therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a
strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.
30:14 And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel,
[as] small fragments of a pitcher, so that thou shouldest not find among
them a sherd, with which thou mightest take up fire, and with which thou
shouldest draw a little water.
30:15 Thus saith Yehovah, the Holy Lord of Israel; When thou shalt turn and
mourn, then thou shalt be saved; and thou shalt know where thou wast, when
thou didst trust in vanities: [then] your strength became vain, yet ye would
not hearken:
30:16 but ye said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and,
We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be
swift.
30:17 A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee
on account of the voice of five; until ye be left as a signal-post upon a
mountain, and as one bearing an ensign upon a hill.
30:18 And Yehovah will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore
be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because Yehovah your Elohim is a
judge: blessed are they that stay themselves upon him.
30:19 For the holy people shall dwell in Zion: and [whereas] Jerusalem has
wept bitterly, [saying], Pity me; he shall pity thee: when he perceived the
voice of thy cry, he hearkened to thee.
30:20 And [though] Yehovah shall give you the bread of affliction and scant
water, yet they that cause thee to err shall no more at all draw nigh to
thee; for thine eyes shall see those that cause thee to err,
30:21 and thine ears shall hear the words of them that went after thee to
lead thee astray, who say, This [is] the way, let us walk in it, whether to
the right or to the left.
30:22 And thou shalt pollute the plated idols, and thou shalt grind to
powder the gilt ones, and shalt scatter them as the water of a removed
[woman], and thou shalt thrust them forth as dung.
30:23 Then shall there be rain to the seed of thy land; and the bread of the
fruit of thy land shall be plenteous and rich: and thy cattle shall feed in
that day in a fertile and spacious place.
30:24 Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed
with winnowed barley.
30:25 And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill,
water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall
fall.
30:26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when Yehovah shall heal the
breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of Yehovah comes after a [long] time, burning wrath:
the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of
his wrath shall devour as fire.
30:28 And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as
the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for [their] vain error:
error also shall pursue them, and overtake them.
30:29 Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as
they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice,
into the mountain of Yehovah, to the Elohim of Israel?
30:30 And Yehovah shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath
of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he
shall lighten terribly, and [his wrath shall be] as water and violent hail.
30:31 For by the voice of Yehovah the Assyrians shall be overcome, [even]
by the stroke wherewith he shall smite them.
30:32 And it shall happen to him from every side, [that] they from whom
their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war
against him in turn with drums and with harp.
30:33 For thou shalt be required before [thy] time: has it been prepared for
thee also to reign? nay, Elohim has [prepared for thee] a deep trench, wood
piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of Yehovah [shall be] as a trench
kindled with sulphur. |
30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith
Yehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength ofPharaohh, and to trust in the shadow
of Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength ofPharaohh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
30:5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an
help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and
anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and
their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not
profit them.
30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have
I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it
may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will
not hear the law of Yehovah:
30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not
unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One
of Israel to cease from before us.
30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is
broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in
the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water
withal out of the pit.
30:15 For thus saith Yehovah 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 would not.
30:16 But 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.
30:17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five
shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and
as an ensign on an hill.
30:18 And therefore will Yehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you,
and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the
Yehovah is a Elohim of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no
more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he
shall hear it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And though Yehovah give you the bread of adversity, and the water of
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more,
but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
30:21 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.
30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and
the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a
menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the
ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat
and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat
clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,
rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the
towers fall.
30:26 Moreover 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 Yehovah bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the
stroke of their wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of Yehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger,
and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a
bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;
and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the
mountain of Yehovah, to the mighty One of Israel.
30:30 And Yehovah shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall
shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and
with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and
hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of Yehovah shall the Assyrian be beaten down,
which smote with a rod.
30:32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which Yehovah
shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of
shaking will he fight with it.
30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he
hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the
breath of Yehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. |