Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 030
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Woe to the rebellious children, saith
HaShem, that take counsel, but not of Me; and that form projects, 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 take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to take shelter in the
shadow of Egypt
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Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your
shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion
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For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come
to Hanes
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They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit
them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach
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The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and
flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and
their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit
them
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For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore
have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still
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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it
in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever
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For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that refuse to hear the teaching of HaShem
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That say to the seers: 'See not,' and to the prophets:
'Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy
delusions
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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.
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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 a potter's vessel is broken,
breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among
the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of
the cistern
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For thus said the L-rd GOD, the Holy One of Israel: in
sitting still 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 a hill
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And therefore will HaShem wait, that He may be gracious
unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have compassion upon
you; for HaShem is a G-d of justice, happy are all they that wait for Him
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For, O people that dwellest in Zion at Jerusalem, thou
shalt weep no more; He will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy
cry, when He shall hear, He will answer thee
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And though the L-rd give you sparing bread and scant
water, yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more, but thine eyes shall see
thy Teacher
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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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And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with
silver, and thy molten images covered with gold; thou shalt put them far away as
one unclean; thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.
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And He will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou
sowest the ground, and bread of the increase of the ground, 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 till the ground
shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with
the fan
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And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon
every high hill streams and watercourses, 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 the seven
days, in the day that HaShem bindeth up the bruise of His people, and healeth
the stroke of their wound
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Behold, the name of HaShem cometh from far, with His anger
burning, and in thick uplifting of smoke; His lips are full of indignation, and
His tongue is as a devouring fire
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And His breath is as an overflowing stream, that divideth
even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a
bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples
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Ye shall have a song as in the night when a feast is
hallowed; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with the pipe to come into
the mountain of HaShem, to the Rock of Israel
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And HaShem will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and
will show the lighting down of His arm, with furious anger, and the flame of a
devouring fire, with a bursting of clouds, and a storm of rain, and hailstones
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For through the voice of HaShem shall Asshur be dismayed,
the rod with which He smote
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And in every place where the appointed staff shall pass,
which HaShem shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps; and in
battles of wielding will He fight with them
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For a hearth is ordered of old; yea, for the king it is
prepared, deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of
HaShem, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it
Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 030
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