Thematic Bible
Isaiah 30:1 (show verse)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They carry out a plan,
they make an alliance,
but against My will,
piling sin on top of sin.
Isaiah 30:2 (show verse)
without asking My advice,
in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.
Isaiah 30:3 (show verse)
and refuge in Egypt’s shadow your disgrace.
Isaiah 30:4 (show verse)
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,
Isaiah 30:5 (show verse)
because of a people who can’t help.
They are of no benefit, they are no help;
they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.
Isaiah 30:6 (show verse)
An oracle about the animals of the Negev:
Through a land of trouble and distress,
of lioness and lion,
of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who will not help them.
of lioness and lion,
of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who will not help them.
Isaiah 30:7 (show verse)
therefore, I call her:
Rahab Who Just Sits.
Isaiah 30:8 (show verse)
and inscribe it on a scroll;
it will be for the future,
forever and ever.
Isaiah 30:9 (show verse)
deceptive children,
children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.
Isaiah 30:10 (show verse)
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.
Prophesy illusions.
Isaiah 30:11 (show verse)
Leave the pathway.
Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah 30:12 (show verse)
“Because you have rejected this message
and have trusted in oppression and deceit,
and have depended on them,
Isaiah 30:13 (show verse)
like a spreading breach,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!
Isaiah 30:14 (show verse)
of a potter’s jar,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains—
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”
Isaiah 30:15 (show verse)
“You will be delivered by returning and resting;
your strength will lie in quiet confidence.
But you are not willing.”
Isaiah 30:16 (show verse)
We will escape on horses”—
therefore you will escape!—
and, “We will ride on fast horses”—
but those who pursue you will be faster.
Isaiah 30:17 (show verse)
at the threat of five you will flee,
until you alone remain
like a solitary pole on a mountaintop
or a banner on a hill.
Isaiah 30:18 (show verse)
and is rising up to show you compassion,
for the Lord is a just God.
All who wait patiently for Him are happy.
Isaiah 30:19 (show verse)
For you people will live on Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you.
Isaiah 30:20 (show verse)
The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression, but your Teacher will not hide Himself any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,
Isaiah 30:21 (show verse)
and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Isaiah 30:22 (show verse)
Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
Isaiah 30:23 (show verse)
Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
Isaiah 30:24 (show verse)
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.
Isaiah 30:25 (show verse)
Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.
Isaiah 30:26 (show verse)
The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the Lord bandages His people’s injuries and heals the wounds He inflicted.
Isaiah 30:27 (show verse)
His anger burning and heavy with smoke.
His lips are full of fury,
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
Isaiah 30:28 (show verse)
that rises to the neck.
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction
and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples
to lead them astray.
Isaiah 30:29 (show verse)
on the night of a holy festival,
and your heart will rejoice
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.
Isaiah 30:30 (show verse)
and reveal His arm
and a flame of consuming fire,
in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.
Isaiah 30:31 (show verse)
He will strike with a rod.
Isaiah 30:32 (show verse)
that the Lord brings down on him
will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;
He will fight against him with brandished weapons.
Isaiah 30:33 (show verse)
for the king for a long time now.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the Lord,
kindles it.