New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 30:13-25

13Therefore this 1iniquity will be to you Like a 2breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose collapse comes 3suddenly in an instant,14Whose collapse is like the smashing of a 4potter’s jar, 5So ruthlessly shattered That a sherd will not be found among its pieces To 6take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern.” 15For thus the Lord 7God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, “In 8repentance and 9rest you will be saved, In 10quietness and trust is your strength.” But you were not willing,16And you said, “No, for we will flee on 11horses,” Therefore you shall flee! “And we will ride on swift horses,” Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.17 12One thousand will flee at the threat of one man; You will flee at the threat of five, Until you are left as a 13flag on a mountain top And as a signal on a hill.

18Therefore the Lord 14 15longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He 16waits on 17high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a 18God of justice; How blessed are all those who 19 20long for Him.

19 21O people in Zion, 22inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will 23weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will 24answer you. 20Although the Lord has given you 25bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer 26hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. 21Your ears will hear a word behind you, “27This is the 28way, walk in it,” whenever you 29turn to the right or to the left. 22And you will defile your graven 30images overlaid with silver, and your molten 31images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to 32them, “33Be gone!”

23Then He will 34give you rain for 35the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be 36rich and 37plenteous; on that day 38your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. 24Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which 39has been 40winnowed with shovel and fork. 25On every lofty mountain and on 41every high hill there will be 42streams running with water on the day of the great 43slaughter, when the towers fall.

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Notes

1. Isaiah 30:13 Is 26:21 ↩
2. Isaiah 30:13 1 Kin 20:30; Ps 62:4; Is 58:12 ↩
3. Isaiah 30:13 Is 29:5; 47:11 ↩
4. Isaiah 30:14 Ps 2:9; Jer 19:10, 11 ↩
5. Isaiah 30:14 Lit Crushed, it will not be spared ↩
6. Isaiah 30:14 Lit snatch up ↩
7. Isaiah 30:15 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
8. Isaiah 30:15 Lit returning ↩
9. Isaiah 30:15 Ps 116:7; Is 28:12 ↩
10. Isaiah 30:15 Is 7:4; 32:17 ↩
11. Isaiah 30:16 Is 2:7; 31:1, 3 ↩
12. Isaiah 30:17 Lev 26:36; Deut 28:25; 32:30; Josh 23:10; Prov 28:1 ↩
13. Isaiah 30:17 Lit pole ↩
14. Isaiah 30:18 Lit waits ↩
15. Isaiah 30:18 Is 42:14, 16; 48:9; Jon 3:4, 10; 2 Pet 3:9, 15 ↩
16. Isaiah 30:18 Lit is on high ↩
17. Isaiah 30:18 Is 2:11, 17; 33:5 ↩
18. Isaiah 30:18 Is 5:16; 28:17; 61:8 ↩
19. Isaiah 30:18 Lit wait ↩
20. Isaiah 30:18 Is 8:17; 25:9; 26:8; 33:2 ↩
21. Isaiah 30:19 M.T. reads A people will inhabit Zion, Jerusalem ↩
22. Isaiah 30:19 Is 65:9; Ezek 37:25, 28 ↩
23. Isaiah 30:19 Is 25:8; 60:20; 61:1-3 ↩
24. Isaiah 30:19 Ps 50:15; Is 58:9; 65:24; Matt 7:7-11 ↩
25. Isaiah 30:20 1 Kin 22:27; Ps 80:5 ↩
26. Isaiah 30:20 Ps 74:9; Amos 8:11 ↩
27. Isaiah 30:21 Lit saying, “This ↩
28. Isaiah 30:21 Ps 25:8, 9; Prov 3:6; Is 35:8, 9; 42:16 ↩
29. Isaiah 30:21 Is 29:24 ↩
30. Isaiah 30:22 Ex 32:2, 4; Judg 17:3, 4; Is 46:6 ↩
31. Isaiah 30:22 Ex 32:2, 4; Judg 17:3, 4; Is 46:6 ↩
32. Isaiah 30:22 Lit it “Go out” ↩
33. Isaiah 30:22 Matt 4:10 ↩
34. Isaiah 30:23 Ps 65:9-13; 104:13, 14 ↩
35. Isaiah 30:23 Lit your ↩
36. Isaiah 30:23 Lit fatness ↩
37. Isaiah 30:23 Lit fat ↩
38. Isaiah 30:23 Ps 144:13; Is 32:20; Hos 4:16 ↩
39. Isaiah 30:24 Lit one winnows ↩
40. Isaiah 30:24 Matt 3:12; Luke 3:17 ↩
41. Isaiah 30:25 Is 35:6, 7; 41:18; 43:19, 20 ↩
42. Isaiah 30:25 Lit canals, streams of water ↩
43. Isaiah 30:25 Is 34:2 ↩

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