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1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD [Yahweh], 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:
2 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!
3 Therefore will the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from where [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] will not profit [them].
7 For the Egyptians will help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.
8 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:
9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD [Yahweh]:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get out of the way, turn aside out from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay on it:
13 Therefore this iniquity will be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.
14 And he will break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he will not spare: so that there will 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 says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest will you be saved; in quietness and in confidence will be your strength: and you would not.
16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore will you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore will they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand [will flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five will you flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
18 And therefore will the LORD [Yahweh] wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [Yahweh] [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.
19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you will weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he will hear it, he will answer you.
20 And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet will not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes will see your teachers:
21 And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
22 You will defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you will cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you will say to it, Get you hence.
23 Then will he give the rain of your seed, that you will sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it will be fat and plenteous: in that day will your cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground will eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there will 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 will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD [Yahweh] binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD [Yahweh] comes from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [of it is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, will reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and [there will be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.
29 You will have a song, as in the night [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD [Yahweh], to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD [Yahweh] will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will 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.
31 For through the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] will the Assyrian be beaten down, [which] smote with a rod.
32 And [in] every place where the grounded staff will pass, which the LORD [Yahweh] will lay upon him, [it] will be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; he has made [it] deep [and] large: the pile of it [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD [Yahweh], like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.