The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:1 (CSB)

Woe to the rebellious children! This is the Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan, but not mine;
they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:2 (CSB)

Without asking my advice they set out to go down to Egypt in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:3 (NASB)

Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:4 (NASB)

For their officials are at Zoan and their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:5 (NASB)

Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who do not benefit them,
Who are not a help or benefit, but a source of shame and also disgrace.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:6 (NASB)

The pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev:

Through a land of distress and anguish, From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who will not benefit them;

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:6 (NASB)

The pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev:
Through a land of distress and anguish, from where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on camels’ humps, to a people who will not benefit them;

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:7 (NASB)

Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her “Rahab who has been exterminated.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:8 (NASB)

Now go, write it on a tablet in their presence And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it may serve in the time to come As a witness forever.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:9 (NASB)

For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the Lord;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:10 (NASB)

Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions”; And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy the truth to us.
Speak to us pleasant words, Prophesy illusions.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:11 (NASB)

Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, Stop speaking before us about the Holy One of Israel!”

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 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,

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:13 (ESV)

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;

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:14 (ESV)

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.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:15 (ESV)

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,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 30:16 (ESV)

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.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 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.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:18 (ESV)

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.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 30:19 (ESV)

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.