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Isaiah 30:18-33
New International Version
Isaiah 30:18-33
New International Version
18 Yet the Lord longs(A) to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.(B)
For the Lord is a God of justice.(C)
Blessed are all who wait for him!(D)
19 People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.(E) How gracious he will be when you cry for help!(F) As soon as he hears, he will answer(G) you. 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread(H) of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers(I) will be hidden(J) no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice(K) behind you, saying, “This is the way;(L) walk in it.” 22 Then you will desecrate your idols(M) overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold;(N) you will throw them away like a menstrual(O) cloth and say to them, “Away with you!(P)”
23 He will also send you rain(Q) for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich(R) and plentiful.(S) In that day(T) your cattle will graze in broad meadows.(U) 24 The oxen(V) and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder(W) and mash, spread out with fork(X) and shovel. 25 In the day of great slaughter,(Y) when the towers(Z) fall, streams of water will flow(AA) on every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine like the sun,(AB) and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals(AC) the wounds he inflicted.
27 See, the Name(AD) of the Lord comes from afar,
with burning anger(AE) and dense clouds of smoke;
his lips are full of wrath,(AF)
and his tongue is a consuming fire.(AG)
28 His breath(AH) is like a rushing torrent,(AI)
rising up to the neck.(AJ)
He shakes the nations in the sieve(AK) of destruction;
he places in the jaws of the peoples
a bit(AL) that leads them astray.
29 And you will sing
as on the night you celebrate a holy festival;(AM)
your hearts will rejoice(AN)
as when people playing pipes(AO) go up
to the mountain(AP) of the Lord,
to the Rock(AQ) of Israel.
30 The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice(AR)
and will make them see his arm(AS) coming down
with raging anger(AT) and consuming fire,(AU)
with cloudburst, thunderstorm(AV) and hail.(AW)
31 The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria;(AX)
with his rod he will strike(AY) them down.
32 Every stroke the Lord lays on them
with his punishing club(AZ)
will be to the music of timbrels(BA) and harps,
as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.(BB)
33 Topheth(BC) has long been prepared;
it has been made ready for the king.
Its fire pit has been made deep and wide,
with an abundance of fire and wood;
the breath(BD) of the Lord,
like a stream of burning sulfur,(BE)
sets it ablaze.(BF)
Isaiah 30:18-33
King James Version
Isaiah 30:18-33
King James Version
18 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.
19 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.
20 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:
21 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.
22 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.
23 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.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 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:
28 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 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 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.
31 For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
32 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 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.
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