1 “Who execute a plan, but not Mine,
Anda Lit pour out a drink offeringmake an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
In order to add sin to sin; | |
2 “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, | |
2 Who proceed down to Egypt
Without consultingb Lit My mouthMe,
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 princes are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes. | |
5 “Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,
Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.” | |
6 Thec Or burden oforacle concerning the beasts of the Negev.
Through a land of distress and anguish,
Fromd Lit themwhere come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on thee Lit shouldersbacks of young donkeys
And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who cannot profit them; | |
7 Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have calledf Lit this oneher
“g M.T. reads They are Rahab (or arrogance), to remainRahab who has been exterminated.” | |
8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them
And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it mayh Lit beserve in the time to come
i So the versions; Heb Forever and everAs a witness forever. | |
9 For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons whoj Lit are not willingrefuse to listen
To thek Or lawinstruction of the LORD; | |
10 Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions”;
And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us what is right,
Speak to usl Lit smooth thingspleasant words,
Prophesy illusions. | |
11 “Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,
m Lit Cause to cease from our presence theLet us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” | |
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them, | |
13 Therefore this iniquity will be to you
Like a breach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant, | |
14 Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,
n Lit Crushed, it will not be sparedSo ruthlessly shattered
That a sherd will not be found among its pieces
Too Lit snatch uptake fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.” | |
15 For thus the Lordp Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said,
“Inq Lit returningrepentance and rest you will be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength.”
But you were not willing, | |
16 And 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. | |
17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;
You will flee at the threat of five,
Until you are left as ar Lit poleflag on a mountain top
And as a signal on a hill. | |
18 Therefore the LORDs Lit waitslongs to be gracious to you,
And therefore Het Lit is on highwaits on high to have compassion on you.
For the LORD is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those whou Lit waitlong for Him. | |
19 v M.T. reads A people will inhabit Zion, JerusalemO people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you. 20 Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. 21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, “w Lit saying, “ThisThis is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. 22 And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say tox Lit it “Go out”them, “Be gone!” | |
23 Then He will give you rain fory Lit yourthe seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will bez Lit fatnessrich andaa Lit fatplenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. 24 Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, whichab Lit one winnowshas been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will beac Lit canals, streams of waterstreams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 The light of the moon will be as 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 bruisead Lit of His blowHe has inflicted. | |
27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from aae Lit distanceremote place;
Burning is His anger andaf Lit heavinessdense is Hisag Lit upliftingsmoke;
His lips are filled with indignation
And His tongue is like a consuming fire; | |
28 His breath is like an overflowing torrent,
Which reaches to the neck,
To shake the nations back and forth in aah Lit sifting of the worthlesssieve,
And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle whichai Lit misleadsleads to ruin. | |
29 You will haveaj Lit the songsongs as in the night when you keep the festival,
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. | |
30 And the LORD will causeak Lit the majesty of His voiceHis voice of authority to be heard,
And theal Lit descentdescending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones. | |
31 For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified,
When He strikes with the rod. | |
32 And everyam Lit passingblow of thean Lit staff of foundationrod of punishment,
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. | |
33 Forao I.e. the place of human sacrifice to MolechTopheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
ap Lit Its pileA pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire. | |
