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Isaiah 30 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - Wo to apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:3 - And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:4 - For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:5 - All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence are viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7 - Yea, Egyptians are vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: 'Their strength is to sit still.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:9 - That a rebellious people is this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:10 - Who have said to seers, 'Ye do not see,' And to prophets, 'Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:11 - Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:12 - Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13 - Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 - For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: 'In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:16 - And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:17 - One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.

God Is Gracious and Just

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18 - And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment is Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:19 - For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:20 - And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:21 - And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, 'This is the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, 'Go out,' thou sayest to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 - And He hath given rain for thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:24 - And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:25 - And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets -- streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day of Jehovah's binding up the breach of His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:27 - Lo, the name of Jehovah is coming from far, Burning is His anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of indignation, And His tongue is as a devouring fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - And His breath is as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, Is on the jaws of the peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:29 - Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:30 - And caused to be heard hath Jehovah The honour of His voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:31 - For from the voice of Jehovah broken down is Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 - And every passage of the settled staff, That Jehovah causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps, And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33 - For, arranged from former time is Tophet, Even it for the king is prepared, He hath made deep, He hath made large, Its pile is fire and much wood, The breath of Jehovah, As a stream of brim stone, is burning in it!
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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