New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 30:18-33

18Therefore the Lord 1 2longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He 3waits on 4high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a 5God of justice; How blessed are all those who 6 7long for Him.

19 8O people in Zion, 9inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will 10weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will 11answer you. 20Although the Lord has given you 12bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer 13hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. 21Your ears will hear a word behind you, “14This is the 15way, walk in it,” whenever you 16turn to the right or to the left. 22And you will defile your graven 17images overlaid with silver, and your molten 18images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to 19them, “20Be gone!”

23Then He will 21give you rain for 22the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be 23rich and 24plenteous; on that day 25your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. 24Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which 26has been 27winnowed with shovel and fork. 25On every lofty mountain and on 28every high hill there will be 29streams running with water on the day of the great 30slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 31The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day 32the Lord binds up the 33fracture of His people and 34heals the bruise 35He has inflicted.

27Behold, 36the name of the Lord comes from a 37remote place; 38Burning is His anger and 39dense is His 40smoke; His lips are filled with 41indignation And His tongue is like a 42consuming fire;28His 43breath is like an overflowing torrent, Which 44reaches to the neck, To 45shake the nations back and forth in a 46sieve, And to put in the jaws of the peoples 47the bridle which 48leads to ruin.29You will have 49songs as in the night when you keep the festival, And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute, To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.30And the Lord will cause 50His voice of authority to be heard, And the 51descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, And in the flame of a consuming fire In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.31For 52at the voice of the Lord 53Assyria will be terrified, When He strikes with the 54rod.32And every 55blow of the 56 57rod of punishment, Which the Lord will lay on him, Will be with the music of 58tambourines and lyres; And in battles, 59brandishing weapons, He will fight them.33For 60 61Topheth has long been ready, Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, 62A pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The 63breath of the Lord, like a torrent of 64brimstone, sets it afire.

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1. Isaiah 30:18 Lit waits ↩
2. Isaiah 30:18 Is 42:14, 16; 48:9; Jon 3:4, 10; 2 Pet 3:9, 15 ↩
3. Isaiah 30:18 Lit is on high ↩
4. Isaiah 30:18 Is 2:11, 17; 33:5 ↩
5. Isaiah 30:18 Is 5:16; 28:17; 61:8 ↩
6. Isaiah 30:18 Lit wait ↩
7. Isaiah 30:18 Is 8:17; 25:9; 26:8; 33:2 ↩
8. Isaiah 30:19 M.T. reads A people will inhabit Zion, Jerusalem ↩
9. Isaiah 30:19 Is 65:9; Ezek 37:25, 28 ↩
10. Isaiah 30:19 Is 25:8; 60:20; 61:1-3 ↩
11. Isaiah 30:19 Ps 50:15; Is 58:9; 65:24; Matt 7:7-11 ↩
12. Isaiah 30:20 1 Kin 22:27; Ps 80:5 ↩
13. Isaiah 30:20 Ps 74:9; Amos 8:11 ↩
14. Isaiah 30:21 Lit saying, “This ↩
15. Isaiah 30:21 Ps 25:8, 9; Prov 3:6; Is 35:8, 9; 42:16 ↩
16. Isaiah 30:21 Is 29:24 ↩
17. Isaiah 30:22 Ex 32:2, 4; Judg 17:3, 4; Is 46:6 ↩
18. Isaiah 30:22 Ex 32:2, 4; Judg 17:3, 4; Is 46:6 ↩
19. Isaiah 30:22 Lit it “Go out” ↩
20. Isaiah 30:22 Matt 4:10 ↩
21. Isaiah 30:23 Ps 65:9-13; 104:13, 14 ↩
22. Isaiah 30:23 Lit your ↩
23. Isaiah 30:23 Lit fatness ↩
24. Isaiah 30:23 Lit fat ↩
25. Isaiah 30:23 Ps 144:13; Is 32:20; Hos 4:16 ↩
26. Isaiah 30:24 Lit one winnows ↩
27. Isaiah 30:24 Matt 3:12; Luke 3:17 ↩
28. Isaiah 30:25 Is 35:6, 7; 41:18; 43:19, 20 ↩
29. Isaiah 30:25 Lit canals, streams of water ↩
30. Isaiah 30:25 Is 34:2 ↩
31. Isaiah 30:26 Is 24:23; 60:19, 20; Rev 21:23; 22:5 ↩
32. Isaiah 30:26 Is 61:1 ↩
33. Isaiah 30:26 Is 1:6; 30:13, 14 ↩
34. Isaiah 30:26 Deut 32:39; Job 5:18; Is 33:24; Jer 33:6; Hos 6:1, 2 ↩
35. Isaiah 30:26 Lit of His blow ↩
36. Isaiah 30:27 Is 59:19 ↩
37. Isaiah 30:27 Lit distance ↩
38. Isaiah 30:27 Is 10:17 ↩
39. Isaiah 30:27 Lit heaviness ↩
40. Isaiah 30:27 Lit uplifting ↩
41. Isaiah 30:27 Is 10:5; 13:5; 66:14 ↩
42. Isaiah 30:27 Is 66:15 ↩
43. Isaiah 30:28 Is 11:4; 30:33; 2 Thess 2:8 ↩
44. Isaiah 30:28 Is 8:8 ↩
45. Isaiah 30:28 Amos 9:9 ↩
46. Isaiah 30:28 Lit sifting of the worthless ↩
47. Isaiah 30:28 2 Kin 19:28; Is 37:29 ↩
48. Isaiah 30:28 Lit misleads ↩
49. Isaiah 30:29 Lit the song ↩
50. Isaiah 30:30 Lit the majesty of His voice ↩
51. Isaiah 30:30 Lit descent ↩
52. Isaiah 30:31 Is 11:4 ↩
53. Isaiah 30:31 Is 10:12; 14:25; 31:8 ↩
54. Isaiah 30:31 Is 10:26; 11:4 ↩
55. Isaiah 30:32 Lit passing ↩
56. Isaiah 30:32 Lit staff of foundation ↩
57. Isaiah 30:32 Is 10:24 ↩
58. Isaiah 30:32 1 Sam 18:6; Jer 31:4 ↩
59. Isaiah 30:32 Ezek 32:10 ↩
60. Isaiah 30:33 I.e. the place of human sacrifice to Molech ↩
61. Isaiah 30:33 2 Kin 23:10; Jer 7:31; 19:6 ↩
62. Isaiah 30:33 Lit Its pile ↩
63. Isaiah 30:33 Is 11:4; 30:28 ↩
64. Isaiah 30:33 Gen 19:24; Is 34:9 ↩

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