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Isaiah 30:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Ah! Rebellious children, oracle of the Lord, Who carry out a plan that is not mine, who make an alliance I did not inspire, thus adding sin upon sin;

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Do you trust in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it? That is what Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is to all who trust in him.

How then can you turn back even a captain, one of the least servants of my lord, trusting, as you do, in Egypt for chariots and horses?

for you are my refuge, a tower of strength against the foe.

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have rebelled against me!

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

Ah! Sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil offspring, corrupt children! They have forsaken the Lord, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized,

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

You have declared, “We have made a covenant with death, with Sheol we have made a pact; When the raging flood passes through, it will not reach us; For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a hiding place,”—

For the bed shall be too short to stretch out in, and the cover too narrow to wrap in.

Ah! You who would hide a plan too deep for the Lord! Who work in the dark, saying, “Who sees us, who knows us?”

For this is a rebellious people, deceitful children, Children who refuse to listen to the instruction of the Lord;

Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses; Who put their trust in chariots because of their number, and in horsemen because of their combined power, But look not to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rain. They will be like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.

Then will the Lord create, over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, A smoking cloud by day and a light of flaming fire by night.

Ah! Those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at sin as if with cart ropes!

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; So he turned to become their enemy, and warred against them.

I have stretched out my hands all day to a rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not good, following their own designs;

For thus said the Lord—his hand strong upon me—warning me not to walk in the way of this people:

Do not call conspiracy what this people calls conspiracy, nor fear what they fear, nor feel dread.

And when they say to you, “Inquire of ghosts and soothsayers who chirp and mutter; should not a people inquire of their gods, consulting the dead on behalf of the living,

Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, who makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.

And now, why go to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Why go to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Thus you must say to the king of Judah who sent you to consult me: Listen! Pharaoh’s army, which has set out to help you, will return to Egypt, its own land.

Like watchers in the fields they surround her, for she has rebelled against me—oracle of the Lord.

The Lord has spoken to you, remnant of Judah. Do not go to Egypt! Mark well that I am warning you this day.

But this people’s heart is stubborn and rebellious; they turn and go away,

The Lord said to me: Son of man, these are the men who are planning evil and giving wicked counsel in this city.

say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.

Propose this parable to the rebellious house and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Put the pot on, put it on! Pour in some water;

No longer shall they be security for the house of Israel, But a reminder of its iniquity in turning away to follow them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God. Wages for Nebuchadnezzar.

Like diamond, harder than flint, I make your brow. Do not be afraid of them, or be terrified by their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

The sword shall rage in his cities: it shall destroy his diviners, and devour them because of their schemings.

Now they continue to sin, making for themselves molten images, Silver idols according to their skill, all of them the work of artisans. “To these, offer sacrifice,” they say. People kiss calves!

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke lies against me.

Then he said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, and not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

And now here you are, offspring of sinful stock, rising up in your ancestors’ place to add still more to the Lord’s blazing anger against the Israelites.

By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,

the Lord will never consent to pardon them. Instead, the Lord’s burning wrath will flare up against them; every curse written in this book will pounce on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under the heavens.

You have been rebels against the Lord from the day I first knew you.

Remember and do not forget how you angered the Lord, your God, in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious toward the Lord.

But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

Then the Israelite leaders partook of their provisions, without inquiring of the Lord.




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