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:
02 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!
03 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be
your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt
your confusion.
04 For his princes were at Zoan, and his
ambassadors came to Hanes.
05 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.
06 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.
07 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to
no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning
this, Their strength is to sit still.
08 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:
09 That this is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not hear the law of
the Lord:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things,
speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the
path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from
before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,
Because ye despise this word, and trust in
oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
18 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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19 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.
20 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:
21 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.
22 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.
23 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.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 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:
28 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.
29 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.
30 And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to
be heard, and shall shew 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.
31 For through the voice of the Lord shall the
Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
32 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.
33 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.
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