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Isaiah 30:1-33 — Woe to Obstinate Children

Isa.30.1-33

¹Woe to the rebellious children, declares Yahweh, who carry out a plan not from me, and who form an alliance not by my Spirit, adding sin to sin. ²They set out to go down to Egypt without asking my counsel, to take refuge in Pharaoh’s stronghold and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt. ³But Pharaoh’s stronghold will become your shame, and shelter in the shadow of Egypt your disgrace. ⁴For his princes are in Zoan, and his messengers reach Hanes. ⁵Everyone is put to shame because of a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor benefit, but only shame and reproach. ⁶An oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev: through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them. ⁷Egypt’s help is vanity and emptiness; therefore I call her Rahab Who Sits Still . ⁸Now come, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a scroll, so that it may stand for a future day as a witness forever. ⁹For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of Yahweh. ¹⁰They say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the visionaries, “Do not show us what is right; speak to us smooth things; show us illusions. ¹¹Turn aside from the way; depart from the path; remove from before us the Holy One of Israel.” ¹²Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you reject this word and trust in oppression and perversity and rely on them, ¹³therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach ready to fall, bulging in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. ¹⁴Its breaking will be like the smashing of a potter’s jar, shattered without mercy, so that not a shard will be found among its pieces to take fire from a hearth or to scoop water from a cistern.” ¹⁵For thus says the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you will be saved; in quietness and trust will be your strength.” But you were unwilling, ¹⁶and you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you shall flee. And, “On swift steeds we will ride”; therefore your pursuers will be swift. ¹⁷A thousand will flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you will flee, until you are left like a mast on the top of a mountain, like a signal banner on a hill. ¹⁸Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he rises to show you mercy; for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him. ¹⁹For a people will dwell in Zion, in 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. ²⁰Though the Lord gives you the bread of distress and the water of oppression, your Teacher will hide himself no more, and your eyes will see your Teacher. ²¹And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. ²²Then you will defile the silver plating of your idols and the gold overlay of your molten images. You will scatter them like an unclean thing; you will say to them, “Be gone!” ²³And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your livestock will graze in broad pastureland. ²⁴And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, winnowed with shovel and fork. ²⁵And on every high mountain and every lofty hill there will be streams, channels of water, in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall. ²⁶And 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 Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people and heals the wound of his blow. ²⁷Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, his anger burning and heavy with rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a consuming fire. ²⁸His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with a sieve of destruction, and to place upon the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them astray. ²⁹You will have a song as in the night when a feast is consecrated, and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel. ³⁰And Yahweh will make the majesty of his voice heard, and he will show the descending blow of his arm in raging anger and the flame of consuming fire, with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. ³¹For at the voice of Yahweh Assyria will be shattered; he will strike with the rod. ³²And every stroke of the appointed rod that Yahweh lays upon him will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres; with battles of brandishing he will fight against them. ³³For Topheth has long ago been prepared; indeed, it has been made ready for the king. He has made its pyre deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance. The breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, sets it ablaze.

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4/11/2026

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