30 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

13 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.

14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

15 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

16 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.

17 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 an hill.

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.

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
    that they may add sin to sin;
(D)who set out to go down to Egypt,
    without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
    and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
(E)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
    and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
For though his officials are at (F)Zoan
    and (G)his envoys reach (H)Hanes,
everyone comes to shame
    through (I)a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
    but shame and disgrace.”

An (J)oracle on (K)the beasts of (L)the Negeb.

Through a land of trouble and anguish,
    from where come the lioness and the lion,
    the adder and the (M)flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
    and their treasures on the humps of camels,
    to a people that cannot profit them.
Egypt's (N)help is worthless and empty;
    therefore I have called her
    (O)“Rahab who sits still.”

A Rebellious People

And now, go, (P)write it before them on a tablet
    and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
    as a witness forever.[b]
(Q)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;
10 (R)who say to (S)the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (T)smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Because you despise this word
    and trust in (U)oppression and perverseness
    and rely on them,
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you
    (V)like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
    whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
14 and its breaking is (W)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.”

15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
“In (X)returning[c] and (Y)rest you shall be saved;
    in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
But you were unwilling, 16 and you said,
“No! We will flee upon (Z)horses”;
    therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
    therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
17 (AA)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.

The Lord Will Be Gracious

18 Therefore the Lord (AB)waits to be gracious to you,
    and therefore he (AC)exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
    (AD)blessed are all those who wait for him.

19 For a people shall dwell (AE)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. 20 And though the Lord give you the (AF)bread of adversity and the (AG)water of affliction, (AH)yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21 (AI)And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is (AJ)the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 22 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. (AK)You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”

23 (AL)And he will give (AM)rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. (AN)In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, 24 and (AO)the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 And (AP)on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, (AQ)when the towers fall. 26 (AR)Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when (AS)the Lord binds up (AT)the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
    burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;[d]
his lips are full of fury,
    and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
28 (AU)his breath is (AV)like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples (AW)a bridle that leads astray.

29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, (AX)as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to (AY)the mountain of the Lord, to (AZ)the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord (BA)will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger (BB)and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst (BC)and storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, (BD)when he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them (BE)will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. (BF)Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For (BG)a burning place[e] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, (BH)its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; (BI)the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web
  2. Isaiah 30:8 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate, and Greek versions; Masoretic Text forever and ever
  3. Isaiah 30:15 Or repentance
  4. Isaiah 30:27 Hebrew in weight of uplifted clouds
  5. Isaiah 30:33 Or For Topheth

Contra los que confían en Egipto

30 “Ay de los hijos rebeldes”, dice el SEÑOR, “por llevar a cabo planes pero no los míos, por hacer libaciones para sellar alianzas pero no según mi Espíritu, añadiendo pecado sobre pecado.

“Ellos parten para descender a Egipto a fin de protegerse bajo la protección del faraón y de refugiarse en la sombra de Egipto; pero a mí no me han consultado. Pero la protección del faraón se les convertirá en vergüenza; y el refugio de la sombra de Egipto, en afrenta. Cuando sus magistrados estén en Tanis y sus embajadores lleguen a Hanes, todos serán defraudados por un pueblo que no les servirá de nada. No los socorrerá ni les traerá provecho, sino solo vergüenza y afrenta”.

Profecía acerca de los animales del Néguev: “Por tierra de tribulación y angustia, de donde provienen la leona y el león, la víbora y la serpiente voladora, ellos llevan sobre los lomos de los asnos sus riquezas, y sobre las gibas de los camellos sus tesoros, hacia un pueblo que no les será de provecho. Ciertamente los egipcios darán ayuda vana y vacía. Por tanto, he llamado a Egipto: ¡Rahab[a] la inutilizada!

“Ahora ven y escribe esta visión en una tablilla, delante de ellos. Grábala en un libro para que se conserve como testimonio[b] perpetuo hasta el día final. Porque este pueblo es rebelde, hijos mentirosos, hijos que no quieren escuchar la instrucción del SEÑOR. 10 Ellos han dicho a los videntes: ‘No tengan visiones’; y a los profetas: ‘No nos profeticen cosas rectas. Dígannos, más bien, cosas halagüeñas; profeticen cosas ilusorias. 11 Apártense del camino, desvíense de la senda; dejen de confrontarnos con el Santo de Israel’ ”.

12 Por tanto, así ha dicho el Santo de Israel: “Porque desecharon esta palabra y confiaron en la violencia y en la perversidad, y se han apoyado en ello, 13 por eso, este pecado les será como muro agrietado que se abre y cae, como un alto muro al cual de repente, en un instante, le viene su quebrantamiento. 14 Su quebrantamiento será como cuando se quiebra una vasija de alfarero, que sin misericordia es hecha pedazos; tanto que entre sus pedazos no se halla un solo fragmento que sirva para sacar brasas de un brasero o para sacar agua de una cisterna”.

15 Porque así ha dicho el SEÑOR Dios[c], el Santo de Israel: “En arrepentimiento y en reposo serán salvos; en la quietud y en la confianza estará su fortaleza”. Pero no quisieron. 16 Más bien, dijeron: “No, sino que huiremos a caballo”. ¡Por tanto, ustedes sí huirán! Dijeron: “Sobre veloces caballos cabalgaremos”. ¡Por tanto, también sus perseguidores serán veloces! 17 Mil huirán ante la amenaza de uno. Huirán ante la amenaza de cinco, hasta que queden como un asta sobre la cumbre de un monte o como una bandera sobre una colina.

El Señor tendrá piedad de Sion

18 Por tanto, el SEÑOR espera para tener piedad de ustedes; por eso, se levanta para tener misericordia de ustedes. Porque el SEÑOR es un Dios de justicia, ¡bienaventurados son todos los que esperan en él!

19 Ciertamente, oh pueblo de Sion que habitas en Jerusalén, nunca más volverás a llorar. De veras se apiadará de ti al oír la voz de tu clamor; al oírla, te responderá. 20 Aunque el Señor les dé pan de congoja y agua de angustia, tu Maestro nunca más se ocultará, sino que tus ojos verán a tu Maestro. 21 Entonces tus oídos oirán a tus espaldas estas palabras: “¡Este es el camino; anden por él, ya sea que vayan a la derecha o a la izquierda!”. 22 Y considerarás inmundas tus imágenes talladas cubiertas de plata y tus imágenes de fundición revestidas de oro. Las tirarás como a trapo sucio; les dirás: “¡Fuera!”.

23 Entonces, cuando siembres la tierra, él dará lluvia a tu sembrado. El alimento que produzca la tierra será sustancioso y abundante. En aquel día tus ganados serán apacentados en amplias praderas. 24 También los bueyes y los asnos que labran la tierra comerán forraje salado, que ha sido aventado con pala y horquilla. 25 Y sucederá en el día de la gran matanza, cuando caigan las torres, que habrá arroyos, corrientes de agua, sobre todo monte alto y sobre toda colina elevada. 26 La luz de la luna será como la luz del sol, y la luz del sol será siete veces mayor, como la luz de siete días, en el día en que el SEÑOR ponga vendas a la fractura de su pueblo y cure las contusiones que él le ha causado.

El Señor consumirá a Asiria

27 He aquí que el nombre del SEÑOR viene de lejos. Arde su furor y levanta densa humareda. Sus labios están llenos de ira, y su lengua es como fuego consumidor. 28 Su aliento, cual torrente desbordado, llega hasta el cuello para zarandear a las naciones en la zaranda hasta acabar con ellas, y para sujetar las mandíbulas de los pueblos con freno que los haga errar.

29 Pero ustedes tendrán una canción, como la noche en que se celebra una fiesta sagrada. Tendrán alegría de corazón, como el que, al son de la flauta, viene al monte del SEÑOR, a la Roca de Israel. 30 Entonces el SEÑOR hará oír la majestad de su voz, y dejará ver el descenso de su brazo con furor de ira y con llama de fuego consumidor, con lluvia violenta, torrente y piedras de granizo. 31 Porque Asiria será hecha pedazos a causa de la voz del SEÑOR; con un palo la golpeará. 32 Y sucederá que cada pasada de la vara de corrección que el SEÑOR descargará sobre ella será al son de panderos y de liras. Blandiendo el brazo combatirá contra ella. 33 Porque desde hace tiempo está listo el Tófet; para el rey ha sido preparado. Su pira se ha hecho profunda y ancha, con su hoguera y abundante leña. El soplo del SEÑOR la encenderá como torrente de azufre.

Footnotes

  1. Isaías 30:7 Según Rollos MM; TM, cabeza del valle fértil de los.
  2. Isaías 30:8 Lit., Señor YHWH.
  3. Isaías 30:15 LXX tiene no será avergonzado; cf. Rom. 9:33; 10:11.