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Text -- Isaiah 30:2-33 (NET)
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30:2 They travel down to Egypt without seeking my will, seeking Pharaoh’s protection , and looking for safety in Egypt’s protective shade .
30:3 But Pharaoh’s protection will bring you nothing but shame , and the safety of Egypt’s protective shade nothing but humiliation .
30:4 Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes ,
30:5 all will be put to shame because of a nation that cannot help them, who cannot give them aid or help , but only shame and disgrace .”
30:6 This is a message about the animals in the Negev : Through a land of distress and danger , inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions , by snakes and darting adders , they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys , their riches on the humps of camels , to a nation that cannot help them.
30:7 Egypt is totally incapable of helping . For this reason I call her ‘Proud one who is silenced .’”
30:8 Now go , write it down on a tablet in their presence , inscribe it on a scroll , so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness .
30:9 For these are rebellious people – they are lying children , children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law .
30:10 They say to the visionaries , “See no more visions!” and to the seers , “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right ! Tell us nice things , relate deceptive messages.
30:11 Turn aside from the way , stray off the path . Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel .”
30:12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says : “You have rejected this message ; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick , and rely on that kind of behavior.
30:13 So this sin will become your downfall . You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse ; it crumbles suddenly , in a flash .
30:14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar , so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged . Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern .”
30:15 For this is what the master , the Lord , the Holy One of Israel says : “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered ; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength , but you are unwilling .
30:16 You say , ‘No , we will flee on horses ,’ so you will indeed flee . You say, ‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast .
30:17 One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away , until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill .”
The Lord Will Not Abandon His People
30:18 For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy ; he sits on his throne , ready to have compassion on you. Indeed , the Lord is a just God ; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed .
30:19 For people will live in Zion ; in Jerusalem you will weep no more. When he hears your cry of despair , he will indeed show you mercy ; when he hears it, he will respond to you.
30:20 The sovereign master will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink ; but your teachers will no longer be hidden ; your eyes will see them .
30:21 You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying , “This is the correct way , walk in it,” whether you are heading to the right or the left .
30:22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images . You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag , saying to them, “Get out !”
30:23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground , and the ground will produce crops in abundance . At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures .
30:24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork .
30:25 On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water , at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse .
30:26 The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days , when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound .
30:27 Look , the name of the Lord comes from a distant place in raging anger and awesome splendor . He speaks angrily and his word is like destructive fire .
30:28 His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck . He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff ; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction .
30:29 You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival . You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the Lord , the Rock who shelters Israel .
30:30 The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power , with furious anger and flaming , destructive fire , with a driving rainstorm and hailstones .
30:31 Indeed , the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria ; he will beat them with a club .
30:32 Every blow from his punishing cudgel , with which the Lord will beat them, will be accompanied by music from the tambourine and harp , and he will attack them with his weapons .
30:33 For the burial place is already prepared ; it has been made deep and wide for the king . The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord’s breath , like a stream flowing with brimstone , will ignite it.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
Hezekiah |
Isaiah |
Israel |
God |
Confidence |
Assyria |
Godlessness |
Word of God |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Music |
Blessing |
Hanes |
Zoan |
LACHISH |
GOD, 2 |
SALVATION |
War |
Viper |
BEACON |
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NET Notes -> Isa 30:2; Isa 30:2; Isa 30:4; Isa 30:4; Isa 30:5; Isa 30:6; Isa 30:6; Isa 30:6; Isa 30:6; Isa 30:6; Isa 30:7; Isa 30:7; Isa 30:7; Isa 30:8; Isa 30:8; Isa 30:8; Isa 30:9; Isa 30:10; Isa 30:10; Isa 30:10; Isa 30:11; Isa 30:11; Isa 30:12; Isa 30:12; Isa 30:12; Isa 30:13; Isa 30:14; Isa 30:14; Isa 30:14; Isa 30:14; Isa 30:15; Isa 30:15; Isa 30:17; Isa 30:17; Isa 30:17; Isa 30:18; Isa 30:18; Isa 30:19; Isa 30:19; Isa 30:19; Isa 30:20; Isa 30:20; Isa 30:20; Isa 30:21; Isa 30:21; Isa 30:22; Isa 30:22; Isa 30:23; Isa 30:23; Isa 30:24; Isa 30:24; Isa 30:25; Isa 30:26; Isa 30:26; Isa 30:26; Isa 30:26; Isa 30:27; Isa 30:27; Isa 30:27; Isa 30:28; Isa 30:28; Isa 30:28; Isa 30:29; Isa 30:30; Isa 30:30; Isa 30:30; Isa 30:31; Isa 30:32; Isa 30:32; Isa 30:32; Isa 30:32; Isa 30:33; Isa 30:33; Isa 30:33; Isa 30:33; Isa 30:33
NET Notes: Isa 30:2 Heb “to seek protection in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek refuge in the shade of Egypt.”
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NET Notes: Isa 30:4 Zoan was located in the Egyptian delta in the north; Hanes was located somewhere in southern region of lower Egypt, south of Memphis; the exact locati...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:5 The present translation follows the marginal (Qere) reading of the Hebrew text; the consonantal text (Kethib) has “made to stink, decay.”
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NET Notes: Isa 30:6 This verse describes messengers from Judah transporting wealth to Egypt in order to buy Pharaoh’s protection through a treaty.
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NET Notes: Isa 30:7 The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁב...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:8 Recording the message will enable the prophet to use it in the future as evidence that God warned his people of impending judgment and clearly spelled...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:13 The verse reads literally, “So this sin will become for you like a breach ready to fall, bulging on a high wall, the breaking of which comes sud...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:19 Heb “he will indeed show you mercy at the sound of your crying out; when he hears, he will answer you.”
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NET Notes: Isa 30:20 Heb “but your teachers will no longer be hidden, your eyes will be seeing your teachers.” The translation assumes that the form מ...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:26 Heb “the injury of his wound.” The joining of synonyms emphasizes the severity of the wound. Another option is to translate, “the wo...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:27 Heb “his lips are full of anger, and his tongue is like consuming fire.” The Lord’s lips and tongue are used metonymically for his w...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:28 Heb “and a bit that leads astray [is] in the jaws of the peoples.” Here the nations are likened to horse that can be controlled by a bit p...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:29 Heb “[you will have] joy of heart, like the one going with a flute to enter the mountain of the Lord to the Rock of Israel.” The image her...
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NET Notes: Isa 30:32 The Hebrew text reads literally, “and with battles of brandishing [weapons?] he will fight against him.” Some prefer to emend ו...
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