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19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. 20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers; 21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.” 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. 25 There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

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19 Indeed, you people who live in Zion and in Jerusalem,[a] you[b] will weep no more. How gracious the Lord[c] will be to you at the sound of your cry! As soon as he hears it, he will answer you. 20 And although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water[d] of affliction, your teachers won’t hide themselves[e] anymore, but your own eyes will see your teachers. 21 And whether you turn to the right or turn to the left, your ears will hear a message behind you: “This is the way, walk in it.” 22 Then you will defile your carved idols that are overlaid with silver and your images plated with gold. You’ll throw them away like disgusting objects[f] and say to them, “Away with you!”

23 He will also provide rain for your seed that you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the ground will be[g] rich and abundant. At that time,[h] your cattle will graze in broad meadows, 24 and oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned[i] fodder that workers will winnow with shovels and forks. 25 And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks and canals[j] running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

26 Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the sun’s light will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days,[k] when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:19 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads at Jerusalem
  2. Isaiah 30:19 So 1QIsaa (pl.); MT (sing.)
  3. Isaiah 30:19 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he
  4. Isaiah 30:20 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks the correct Heb. construct
  5. Isaiah 30:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads himself
  6. Isaiah 30:22 Lit. like menstrual rags
  7. Isaiah 30:23 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads and it will be
  8. Isaiah 30:23 Lit. On that day
  9. Isaiah 30:24 Lit. salted
  10. Isaiah 30:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads streams
  11. Isaiah 30:26 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks like the light of seven full days