KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 30
The prophet threatens the people for their confidence in Egypt, and contempt of Jehovah's Word. Jehovah's wrath, and the people's joy, in the destruction of Assyria.
1Woe to rebellious sons, a statement of Jehovah, to make counsel, but not from Me; and to weave a covering web, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin on sin;
2these walking to go down to Egypt, but they have not asked at My mouth, to seek refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
3And the stronghold of Pharaoh shall become a shame to you; and refuge in the shadow of Egypt a disgrace.
4For his rulers were in Zoan, and his ambassadors reached to Hanes.
5Every one is ashamed over a people who do not profit them; they are not for a help, and not for profiting, but for a shame; yea, also for a reproach.
6The burden of the beasts of the south: Into the land of distress and constraint. The lioness and the lion are from them; the viper and fiery flying serpent. They lift up their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who cannot profit them.
7And Egypt, vainly and emptily they help. So I have called to this: Their strength is to sit still.
8Now come, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a book, so that it may be for the latter day forever, until forever;
9that this is a rebellious people, lying sons; sons who are not willing to hear the Law of Jehovah;
10those who say to the seers, Do not see; and to those who advise, Do not have a vision for right things to us; speak smooth things to us; have a vision of trifles.
11Turn aside from the way; stretch from the path; cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12Therefore, so says the Holy One of Israel, Because of your rejection of this Word, and your trust in oppression and perversity, even resting on it;
13So this iniquity shall be to you as a broken section falling, like the bulging out of a high wall, the breaking of which comes suddenly, in an instant.
14And its breaking is as the breaking of a potter's vessel; when shattered he has no pity; for in its breaking there is not found a shard to take up fire from the hearth, nor to skim water from a pool.
15For so says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. But you were not willing.
16For you said, No! For we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. Also, you say, We will ride on swift ones. On account of this, those who pursue you shall be swift ones.
17One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one. You shall flee from the rebuke of five, until you are left like a pole on the top of the mountain, and like a sign on a hill.
18And therefore Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And for this He is exalted to have mercy on you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
19For the people shall live in Zion, at Jerusalem; Surely you shall weep no more. Favoring He will favor you at the sound of your cry. When He hears, He will answer you.
20And the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of oppression; but your teachers shall not be hidden any more; but your eyes shall be able to see your teachers.
21And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you go right, or when you go left.
22And you shall defile the plating of your carved images of silver; and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall strew them as a menstruous cloth; you shall say to it, Go out!
23Then He shall give rain for your seed, with which you sow the ground. And the bread of the produce of the earth also shall be fattened and fat. In that day your livestock shall feed in a pasture made wide.
24Also, the oxen and the young asses serving the ground shall eat seasoned fodder which one winnows with the shovel and with the fork.
25And on every high mountain, and on every high hill, shall be rivulets lifted up, streams of water, in a day of great slaughter, in the falling of towers.
26And the moonlight shall be like the light of the sun. And the sun's light shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day of binding up, Jehovah binding the break of His people, and healing the wound of His blow.
27Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from afar; His anger burns; and is heavy as the lifting up of flame; His lips are full of fury, and His tongue like a devouring fire.
28And like an overflowing torrent, His breath shall divide to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity, and a bridle causing to err on the jaws of the peoples.
29The song shall be to you, as the night when the feast is sanctified, and gladness of heart, as one going with the flute, to come into the mount of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
30And Jehovah shall make the majesty of His voice heard; and He causes His arm to be seen coming down with raging anger and flame of consuming fire, cloudburst and storm, and hailstones.
31For through the voice of Jehovah, Assyria shall be crushed, the rod with which He strikes.
32And every passage of the appointed staff that Jehovah causes to rest on him will be with timbrels and with harps. And in brandishing battles He fights with her.
33For Topheth is ordained from yesterday. Also, it is prepared for the king; He deepened; He widened its pyre; He makes great with fire and wood. The breath of Jehovah burns in it like a torrent of brimstone.
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