Isaiah 30 — BSB
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The Worthless Treaty with Egypt
30“Woe to the rebellious children,”declares the LORD,“to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine,who form an alliance, but against My will,heaping up sin upon sin.2They set out to go down to Egyptwithout asking My advice,to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protectionand take refuge in Egypt’s shade.3But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame,and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.4For though their princes are at Zoanand their envoys have arrived in Hanes,5everyone will be put to shamebecause of a people useless to them.They bring neither help nor benefit,but only shame and disgrace.”6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev:
Through a land of hardship and distress,of lioness and lion,
of viper and flying serpent,they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeysand their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people of no profit to them.7Egypt’s help is futile and empty;therefore I have called her
Rahab Who Sits Still.+8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presenceand inscribe it on a scroll;it will be for the days to come,a witness forever and ever.9These are rebellious people, deceitful children,children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.10They say to the seers,“Stop seeing visions!”and to the prophets,“Do not prophesy to us the truth!Speak to us pleasant words;prophesy illusions.11Get out of the way; turn off the road.Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”12Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“Because you have rejected this message,trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail,a bulge in a high wall,whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar,shattered so that no fragment can be found.Not a shard will be found in the dustlarge enough to scoop the coals from a hearth
or to skim the water from a cistern.”15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said:
“By repentance and restyou would be saved;your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”16“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.”Therefore you will flee!“We will ride swift horses,”but your pursuers will be faster.17A thousand will flee at the threat of one;at the threat of five you will all flee,until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop,like a banner on a hill.