19 Surely a people shall dwell in Zion, and in Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will certainly have mercy upon thee at the voice of thy cry: when he heareth thee, he will answer thee.

20 And when the Lord hath given you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, thy rain shall be no more kept back, but thine eyes shall see thy [a]rain.

21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, [b]walk ye in it, when thou turnest to the right hand, and when thou turnest to the left.

22 And ye shall [c]pollute the covering of the images of silver, and the rich ornament of thine images of gold, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and thou shalt say unto it, [d]Get thee hence.

23 Then shall he give rain unto thy seed, when thou shalt sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and as oil: in that day shall thy cattle be fed in large pastures.

24 The oxen also and the young asses, that till the ground, shall eat clean provender, which is winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25 And upon every high [e]mountain, and upon every high hill shall there be rivers, and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.

26 Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the [f]Sun, and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, and like the light of seven days in the day that the Lord shall bind up the breach of his people, and heal the stroke of their wound.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:20 Or, instructor.
  2. Isaiah 30:21 God shall direct all thy ways, and appoint thee how to go either hither or thither.
  3. Isaiah 30:22 Ye shall cast away your idols, which you have made of gold, and silver, with all that belongeth unto them, as a most filthy thing, and polluted.
  4. Isaiah 30:22 Showing, that there can be no true repentance, except both in heart and deed we show ourselves enemies to idolatry.
  5. Isaiah 30:25 By these divers manners of speech he showeth that the felicity of the Church shall be so great, that none is able sufficiently to express it.
  6. Isaiah 30:26 When the Church shall be restored, the glory thereof shall pass seven times the brightness of the Sun: for by the Sun and Moon, which are two excellent creatures, he showeth what shall be the glory of the children of God in the kingdom of Christ.

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