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Chapter 30
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Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, 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: |
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That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked
at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength
of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! |
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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,
and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. |
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For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came
to Hanes. |
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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. |
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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. |
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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength
is to sit still. |
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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: |
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That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that will not hear the law of the LORD: |
10
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Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits: |
11
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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path,
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. |
12
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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because
ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon: |
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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. |
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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. |
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For thus saith the Lord 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious
unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may
have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment:
blessed are all they that wait for him. |
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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. |
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And though the Lord 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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 the LORD
bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the
stroke of their wound. |
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Behold, the name of the LORD 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: |
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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. |
29
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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 the LORD, to the
mighty One of Israel. |
30
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And the LORD 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. |
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For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian
be beaten down, which smote with a rod. |
32
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And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass,
which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets
and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with
it. |
33
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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 the LORD,
like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. |
