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Isaiah 30:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

This is the LORD's message for his rebellious people: “You follow your own plans instead of mine; you make treaties without asking me, and you keep on sinning.

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All day long I have reached out to stubborn and sinful people going their own way.

The LORD has said, “Listen, heaven and earth! The children I raised have turned against me.

Trouble and destruction will be their reward for rejecting me. I would have rescued them, but they told me lies.

But you are stubborn and refuse to turn to God. So you are making things even worse for yourselves on that day when he will show how angry he is and will judge the world with fairness.

Then the LORD's people turned against him and made his Holy Spirit sad. So he became their enemy and attacked them.

You are in for trouble, if you try to hide your plans from the LORD! Or if you think what you do in the dark can't be seen.

But evil people who pretend to be what they are not will become worse than ever, as they fool others and are fooled themselves.

You will be so determined to speak my message that nothing will stop you. I will make you hard like a diamond, and you'll have no reason to be afraid of those arrogant rebels.

Ezekiel, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are just like their ancestors who rebelled against me and refused to stop.

You stubborn people have rebelled and turned your backs on me.

They have turned against the LORD and can't be trusted. They have refused his teaching

Let me live with you for ever and find protection under your wings, my God.

You may be an Israelite and know-all about the LORD's agreement with us, but he won't bless you if you rebel against him. You may think you can get away with it, but you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.

In fact, you've rebelled against the LORD for as long as he has known you.

They will be a place of safety from stormy winds, a stream in the desert, and a rock that gives shade from the heat of the sun.

Don't call something a rebellious plot, just because they do, and don't be afraid of something, just because they are.

Then the LORD will cover the whole city and its meeting places with a thick cloud each day and with a flaming fire each night. God's own glory will be like a huge tent that covers everything.

Why be punished more? Why not give up your sin? Your head is badly bruised, and you are weak all over.

Now you continue to sin by designing and making idols of silver in the shape of calves. You are told to sacrifice to these idols— yes, even to kiss them.

You are in for trouble! The lies you tell are like ropes by which you drag along sin and evil.

your bed is too short, your blanket too skimpy.

Do you think you have an agreement with death and the world of the dead? Why do you trust in your lies to keep you safe from danger and the mighty flood?

Someone may say to you, “Go to the fortune-tellers who make soft chirping sounds or ask the spirits of the dead. After all, a nation ought to be able to ask its own gods

Don't ever forget how you kept rebelling and making the LORD angry the whole time you were in the desert. You rebelled from the day you left Egypt until the day you arrived here.

Now you people of Reuben and Gad are doing the same thing and making the LORD even angrier.

Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes. Widows and orphans never get a fair trial.

The LORD took hold of me with his powerful hand and said: I'm warning you! Don't act like these people.

I, the LORD, have put a curse on those who turn from me and trust in human strength.

I told the people: You escaped the disaster that struck Judah, but now the LORD warns you to stay away from Egypt.

The LORD said, “Ezekiel, son of man, these men are making evil plans and giving dangerous advice to the people of Jerusalem.

Then tell my rebellious people: “Pour water in a cooking pot and set it over a fire.

My own people Israel will never again depend on your nation. In fact, when the Israelites remember what happened to you Egyptians, they will realize how wrong they were to turn to you for help. Then the Israelites will know that I, the LORD God, did these things.

So the angel explained that it was the following message of the LORD to Zerubbabel: I am the LORD All-Powerful. So don't depend on your own power or strength, but on my Spirit.

The Israelites tried some of the food, but they did not ask the LORD if he wanted them to make a treaty.

Is he depending on Egypt and its king? That's the same as leaning on a broken stick, and it will go right through his hand.

How could you even defeat our lowest ranking officer, when you have to depend on Egypt for chariots and cavalry?

Israel, you are a sinful nation loaded down with guilt. You are wicked and corrupt and have turned from the LORD, the holy God of Israel.

You are in for trouble if you go to Egypt for help, or if you depend on an army of chariots or a powerful cavalry. Instead you should depend on and trust the holy LORD God of Israel.

and you trusted the power of Egypt and Assyria.

War will visit their cities, and their plans will fail.




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