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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law; 10 who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.” 12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it, 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. 14 He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

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The Illusions of False Prophecy

“Go now, and write it down[a] on a tablet in their presence,
    inscribing it in a book,
so that for times to come
    it may be an everlasting witness.
For they are a rebellious people,
    deceitful children,
children unwilling to hear
    the Lord’s instruction.
10 They say to the seers,
    ‘Don’t see visions,’
and to the prophets,
    ‘Don’t give us visions of what is right!
        Instead, tell us welcome things, prophesy illusions,
11 get out of the way,
    turn aside from the path,
        and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel.”[b]

Rejecting God’s Message

12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says:

“Because you reject this message,
    and put your trust in oppression and enjoy it,[c]
        and since you rely on it,
13 therefore, for you this sin will become
    like a breach in a high wall that is about to collapse,
        bulging out,
    and whose crash comes suddenly—in an instant.
14 Its breaking will be like when potters’ vessels are broken,
    shattered so ruthlessly[d]
that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found
    for taking fire from a hearth
        or scooping water out of a cistern.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:8 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsac LXX read write down
  2. Isaiah 30:11 Lit. bring to an end the Holy One from before us.
  3. Isaiah 30:12 Apparent meaning 1QIsaa; MT reads and are perverse
  4. Isaiah 30:14 Lit. broken—they do not take pity; so 1QIsaa; MT reads broken—he does not take pity