Isaiah 30:1

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Summary

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:

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General references

Proverbs 25:19

Ezekiel 11:2

Bible References

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And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,

They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

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And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

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Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

General references

Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town: