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Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

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That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

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For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

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They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

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The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

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That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

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Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

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Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

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And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

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For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

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But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

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One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

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And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

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And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

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And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

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Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

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Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

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The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

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

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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

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Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

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And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

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Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

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And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

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For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

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And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

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For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 30:6

30:6 bunches. That is, “humps.”

Isaiah 30:7

30:7 sit still. There are times when God’s people have done all they know how to do to solve a desperate situation, to no avail. They are then tempted to turn to unbelievers to help them, but this is a dangerous compromise. These are the very situations in which God delights to honor true faith. “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” In such circumstances, the believer is best advised to “sit still,” and let God be his strength. Compare Exodus 14:13.

Isaiah 30:8

30:8 note it in a book. See note on Jeremiah 36:2.

Isaiah 30:15

30:15 your strength. See note on Isaiah 30:7.

Isaiah 30:18

30:18 will the LORD wait. The Lord may delay His answer for our own good, but when the answer does come after patient waiting by the believer (Hebrews 10:36), then the eventual work of God will bring yet greater blessing to those who have waited, and greater glory to God.

Isaiah 30:21

30:21 This is the way. When we are “in the way” (Genesis 24:27), the Lord promises to lead us, redirecting our steps as necessary. The “voice” may only be audible to our spiritual ears, but His leading is real.

Isaiah 30:26

30:26 sevenfold. This remarkable phenomenon will apparently be fulfilled in the coming period of great tribulation, when the sun’s heat is greatly increased (Revelation 16:8,9). When the sun’s light increases, the reflected light of the moon must also increase. All such judgments will contribute to the purging and deliverance of the people of God who will be saved during that time.

Isaiah 30:30

30:30 lighting down. That is, “descent.”

Isaiah 30:31

30:31 the Assyrian. This prophecy, like many others, apparently has both a near and a far fulfillment. See notes on Micah 5:5,6. Note also Isaiah 10:5; 31:8.

Isaiah 30:33

30:33 Tophet. “Tophet” is another name for “the valley of the children of Hinnom” (II Kings 23:10), where the idolatrous Jews made their sons and daughters “to pass through the fire” as an offering to the pagan god Molech. King Josiah “defiled” it, by converting it into the constantly burning refuse dump for Jerusalem. The valley thus assumed the appearance of a lake of fire, and its resultant name (gehenna) became the name for the future hell, as used in the New Testament. Thus, this prophecy foreshadows the ultimate judgment of the lost in the eternal lake of fire (Revelation 20:10, 15).

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