Isaiah 30:19-26

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁹ So people will live in Zion. In Jerusalem you will weep no more. The Lord will be very gracious to you when he hears your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. ²⁰ Though the Lord has given you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, he is your teacher.^[a] He will not be hidden any longer. You will see your teacher with your own eyes. ²¹ Whenever you are tempted to turn to the right or to the left, you will hear his voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.” ²² You will defile your idols that are plated with silver and your images overlaid with gold. You will throw them away like a filthy cloth,^[b] saying, “Get away from me!”

²³ Then he will give you rain so that you can sow seed in the ground. The bread from your land’s harvest will be excellent and plentiful. On that day your livestock will graze in wide pastures. ²⁴ The oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat the best feed^[c]—winnowed with a shovel and a winnowing fork. ²⁵ On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams flowing with water.

It will be a day of terrible slaughter, when towers fall. ²⁶ The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day when the Lord will bind up the wounds of his people and heal the injuries he inflicted.