30:1 "Ah,
stubborn
children,"
declares
the
LORD,
"who
carry
out
a
plan,
but
not
mine,
and
who
make
an
alliance,
but
not
of
my
Spirit,
that
they
may
add
sin
to
sin;
30:2 who
set
out
to
go
down
to
Egypt,
without
asking
for
my
direction,
to
take
refuge
in
the
protection
of
Pharaoh
and
to
seek
shelter
in
the
shadow
of
Egypt!
30:3 Therefore
shall
the
protection
of
Pharaoh
turn
to
your
shame,
and
the
shelter
in
the
shadow
of
Egypt
to
your
humiliation.
30:4 For
though
his
officials
are
at
Zoan
and
his
envoys
reach
Hanes,
30:5 everyone
comes
to
shame
through
a
people
that
cannot
profit
them,
that
brings
neither
help
nor
profit,
but
shame
and
disgrace."
30:6 An
oracle
on
the
beasts
of
the
Negeb.
Through
a
land
of
trouble
and
anguish,
from
where
come
the
lioness
and
the
lion,
the
adder
and
the
flying
fiery
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.
30:7 Egypt's
help
is
worthless
and
empty;
therefore
I
have
called
her
"Rahab
who
sits
still."
30:8 And
now,
go,
write
it
before
them
on
a
tablet
and
inscribe
it
in
a
book,
that
it
may
be
for
the
time
to
come
as
a
witness
forever.
30:9 For
they
are
a
rebellious
people,
lying
children,
children
unwilling
to
hear
the
instruction
of
the
LORD;
30:10 who
say
to
the
seers,
"Do
not
see,"
and
to
the
prophets,
"Do
not
prophesy
to
us
what
is
right;
speak
to
us
smooth
things,
prophesy
illusions,
30:11 leave
the
way,
turn
aside
from
the
path,
let
us
hear
no
more
about
the
Holy
One
of
Israel."
30:12 Therefore
thus
says
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
"Because
you
despise
this
word
and
trust
in
oppression
and
perverseness
and
rely
on
them,
30:13 therefore
this
iniquity
shall
be
to
you
like
a
breach
in
a
high
wall,
bulging
out,
and
about
to
collapse,
whose
breaking
comes
suddenly,
in
an
instant;
30:14 and
its
breaking
is
like
that
of
a
potter's
vessel
that
is
smashed
so
ruthlessly
that
among
its
fragments
not
a
shard
is
found
with
which
to
take
fire
from
the
hearth,
or
to
dip
up
water
out
of
the
cistern."
30:15 For
thus
said
the
Lord
GOD,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
"In
returning
and
rest
you
shall
be
saved;
in
quietness
and
in
trust
shall
be
your
strength."
But
you
were
unwilling,
30:16 and
you
said,
"No!
We
will
flee
upon
horses";
therefore
you
shall
flee
away;
and,
"We
will
ride
upon
swift
steeds";
therefore
your
pursuers
shall
be
swift.
30:17 A
thousand
shall
flee
at
the
threat
of
one;
at
the
threat
of
five
you
shall
flee,
till
you
are
left
like
a
flagstaff
on
the
top
of
a
mountain,
like
a
signal
on
a
hill.
30:18 Therefore
the
LORD
waits
to
be
gracious
to
you,
and
therefore
he
exalts
himself
to
show
mercy
to
you.
For
the
LORD
is
a
God
of
justice;
blessed
are
all
those
who
wait
for
him.
30:19 For
a
people
shall
dwell
in
Zion,
in
Jerusalem;
you
shall
weep
no
more.
He
will
surely
be
gracious
to
you
at
the
sound
of
your
cry.
As
soon
as
he
hears
it,
he
answers
you.
30:20 And
though
the
Lord
give
you
the
bread
of
adversity
and
the
water
of
affliction,
yet
your
Teacher
will
not
hide
himself
anymore,
but
your
eyes
shall
see
your
Teacher.
30:21 And
your
ears
shall
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.
30:22 Then
you
will
defile
your
carved
idols
overlaid
with
silver
and
your
gold-plated
metal
images.
You
will
scatter
them
as
unclean
things.
You
will
say
to
them,
"Be
gone!"
30:23 And
he
will
give
rain
for
the
seed
with
which
you
sow
the
ground,
and
bread,
the
produce
of
the
ground,
which
will
be
rich
and
plenteous.
In
that
day
your
livestock
will
graze
in
large
pastures,
30:24 and
the
oxen
and
the
donkeys
that
work
the
ground
will
eat
seasoned
fodder,
which
has
been
winnowed
with
shovel
and
fork.
30:25 And
on
every
lofty
mountain
and
every
high
hill
there
will
be
brooks
running
with
water,
in
the
day
of
the
great
slaughter,
when
the
towers
fall.
30:26 Moreover,
the
light
of
the
moon
will
be
as
the
light
of
the
sun,
and
the
light
of
the
sun
will
be
sevenfold,
as
the
light
of
seven
days,
in
the
day
when
the
LORD
binds
up
the
brokenness
of
his
people,
and
heals
the
wounds
inflicted
by
his
blow.
30:27 Behold,
the
name
of
the
LORD
comes
from
afar,
burning
with
his
anger,
and
in
thick
rising
smoke;
his
lips
are
full
of
fury,
and
his
tongue
is
like
a
devouring
fire;
30:28 his
breath
is
like
an
overflowing
stream
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
astray.
30:29 You
shall
have
a
song
as
in
the
night
when
a
holy
feast
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.
30:30 And
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
storm
and
hailstones.
30:31 The
Assyrians
will
be
terror-stricken
at
the
voice
of
the
LORD,
when
he
strikes
with
his
rod.
30:32 And
every
stroke
of
the
appointed
staff
that
the
LORD
lays
on
them
will
be
to
the
sound
of
tambourines
and
lyres.
Battling
with
brandished
arm,
he
will
fight
with
them.
30:33 For
a
burning
place
has
long
been
prepared;
indeed,
for
the
king
it
is
made
ready,
its
pyre
made
deep
and
wide,
with
fire
and
wood
in
abundance;
the
breath
of
the
LORD,
like
a
stream
of
sulfur,
kindles
it.