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19 [a]O people in Zion, (A)inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will (B)weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will (C)answer you. 20 The Lord has given you (D)bread of distress and water of oppression; He, your Teacher will no longer (E)hide Himself, but your eyes will see your Teacher. 21 And your ears will hear a word behind you, “[b]This is the (F)way, walk in it,” whenever you (G)turn to the right or to the left. 22 And you will defile your graven (H)images overlaid with your silver, and your molten (I)images plated with your gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing and say to [c]them, “(J)Be gone!”

23 Then He will (K)give you rain for [d]the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the produce of the ground, and it will be [e]rich and fat; on that day (L)your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. 24 Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which [f]has been (M)winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 And it will be that on every lofty mountain and on (N)every lifted up hill there will be [g]streams running with water on the day of the great (O)slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 (P)And the 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 (Q)Yahweh binds up the (R)fracture of His people and (S)heals the bruise [h]He has inflicted.

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  1. Isaiah 30:19 M.T. A people will inhabit Zion, Jerusalem
  2. Isaiah 30:21 Lit saying, “This
  3. Isaiah 30:22 Lit it, “Go out”
  4. Isaiah 30:23 Lit your
  5. Isaiah 30:23 Lit fatness
  6. Isaiah 30:24 Lit one winnows
  7. Isaiah 30:25 Lit canals, streams of water
  8. Isaiah 30:26 Lit of His blow

19 For people will live in Zion;
    in Jerusalem, you will surely not weep.
Surely he will be gracious to you;
    when he hears the sound of your cry, he will answer you.
20 And the Lord will give you the bread of distress
    and the water of oppression,
but[a] your teachers will not hide themselves[b] any longer.
    And your eyes shall see[c] your teachers.
21 And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying,
    “this is the way; walk in it,”
when you go to your right
    and when you go to your left.
22 And you will defile the plating of your silver idols
    and the covering of your gold image.
You will scatter them like contaminated things;[d]
    you will say to it, “Filth!”[e]
23 And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground,
    and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fertile.[f]
On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures;[g]
24     and the oxen and the donkeys that till[h] the ground will eat fodder, sorrel
        that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
25 And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill,
    watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.
26 And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun,
    and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days,
on the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people,
    and he heals the wound of his blow.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:20 Or “and”
  2. Isaiah 30:20 Hebrew “himself”
  3. Isaiah 30:20 Literally “be seeing”
  4. Isaiah 30:22 Hebrew “contaminated thing”
  5. Isaiah 30:22 Or “Get out!”
  6. Isaiah 30:23 Literally “fat”
  7. Isaiah 30:23 Hebrew “pasture”
  8. Isaiah 30:24 Or “tilling”