Isaiah 30:27-33
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Annihilation of the Assyrians
27 Look, Yahweh[a] comes from far away,
His anger burning and heavy with smoke.[b]
His lips are full of fury,
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
28 His breath is like an overflowing torrent(A)
that rises to the neck.(B)
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction
and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples
to lead them astray.(C)
29 Your singing will be like that
on the night of a holy festival,
and your heart will rejoice
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.(D)
30 And the Lord will make the splendor of His voice heard
and reveal His arm(E) striking in angry wrath
and a flame of consuming fire,
in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.
31 Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the Lord.
He will strike with a rod.
32 And every stroke of the appointed[c] staff
that the Lord brings down on him
will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;
He will fight against him with brandished weapons.
33 Indeed! Topheth has been ready(F)
for the king for a long time now.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the Lord,(G) like a torrent of brimstone,
kindles it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:27 Lit the name Yahweh
- Isaiah 30:27 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 30:32 Some Hb mss read punishing
Isaiah 30:27-33
International Standard Version
27 See, the name of the Lord comes from far away,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;
his lips are full of fury,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire.
28 His breath is like an overflowing torrent,
and it rises right up to the neck,
to shake[a] the nations in the sieve of destruction,
and to place in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.
29 You will have songs as on nights when people celebrate a holy festival,[b] and gladness of heart, as when they set out with flutes to go to the Lord’s mountain, to the Rock of Israel.
God’s Judgment on Assyria
30 And the Lord will make heard—yes, he will make heard[c]—his majestic voice, and make his arm[d] seen descending in raging anger and in a flame of consuming fire, with a cloudburst, thunderstorm and hailstones. 31 Indeed, the Assyrians will be shattered at the Lord’s voice, when he strikes them with his scepter. 32 And every stroke of his punishing rod[e] that the Lord brings down on them will be to the sound of tambourines and harps, as he fights against her[f] in battle with a brandished arm.
33 For the Fire Pit[g] has long been prepared; truly it is for the king; it will indeed be made ready.[h] And[i] its pyre will be deep and wide, with abundant fire and wood. Like a stream of burning sulfur, the breath of the Lord will set it ablaze.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Isaiah 30:28 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to sift; LXX reads to confuse
- Isaiah 30:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one celebrates a holy festival
- Isaiah 30:30 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read heard only once
- Isaiah 30:30 I.e. the Messiah
- Isaiah 30:32 So MTmss; 1QIsaa reads the rod of his foundation; MT reads the rod of foundation
- Isaiah 30:32 So 1QIsaa MT; MTqere, mss read against them
- Isaiah 30:33 Lit. the Topheth; i.e. a fire pit near Jerusalem where the Canaanite deity Molech was worshipped
- Isaiah 30:33 So 1QIsaa; MT reads it is made ready for the king; cf. LXX
- Isaiah 30:33 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks And
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