19 People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.(A) How gracious he will be when you cry for help!(B) As soon as he hears, he will answer(C) you. 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread(D) of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers(E) will be hidden(F) no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice(G) behind you, saying, “This is the way;(H) walk in it.” 22 Then you will desecrate your idols(I) overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold;(J) you will throw them away like a menstrual(K) cloth and say to them, “Away with you!(L)

23 He will also send you rain(M) for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich(N) and plentiful.(O) In that day(P) your cattle will graze in broad meadows.(Q) 24 The oxen(R) and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder(S) and mash, spread out with fork(T) and shovel. 25 In the day of great slaughter,(U) when the towers(V) fall, streams of water will flow(W) on every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine like the sun,(X) and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals(Y) the wounds he inflicted.

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

23 Then He will (K)give you rain for your seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be [c]rich and [d]plentiful; on that day (L)your livestock will graze in a wide pasture. 24 Also the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat [e]seasoned feed, which [f]has been (M)winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. 25 And on every lofty mountain and (N)every high 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 full 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, on the day (Q)the Lord binds up the (R)fracture of His people and (S)heals the wound [h]He has inflicted.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:19 MT For a people will inhabit Zion, Jerusalem
  2. Isaiah 30:22 Lit it “Go out”
  3. Isaiah 30:23 Lit fatness
  4. Isaiah 30:23 Lit fat
  5. Isaiah 30:24 Lit sorrel-seasoned
  6. Isaiah 30:24 Lit one winnows
  7. Isaiah 30:25 Lit canals, streams of water
  8. Isaiah 30:26 Lit of His blow