Isaiah 30:4-14

4 "For 1their princes are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
5 "Everyone will be 2ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, Who are 3not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach."
6 The oracle concerning the 4beasts of the 5Negev. Through a land of 6distress and anguish, From where come lioness and lion, viper and 7flying serpent, They 8carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys And their treasures on 9camels' humps, To a people who cannot profit them;
7 Even Egypt, whose 10help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her "11Rahab who has been exterminated."
8 Now go, 12write it on a tablet before them And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve in the time to come As a witness forever *.
9 For this is a 13rebellious people, 14false sons, Sons who refuse * to 15listen To the instruction of the LORD;
10 Who say to the 16seers, "You must not see visions"; And to the prophets, "You must not 17prophesy to us what is right, 18Speak to us pleasant words, Prophesy illusions.
11 "Get out of the way, 19turn aside from the path, 20Let us hear no * more about the Holy One of Israel."
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "21Since you have rejected this word And have put your trust in 22oppression and guile, and have relied on them,
13 Therefore this 23iniquity will be to you Like a 24breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose collapse comes 25suddenly in an instant,
14 Whose collapse is like the smashing of a 26potter's jar, So ruthlessly * shattered That a sherd will not be found among its pieces To take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern."

Cross References 26

  • 1. Isaiah 19:11
  • 2. Jeremiah 2:36
  • 3. Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 31:3
  • 4. Isaiah 46:1, 2
  • 5. Genesis 12:9
  • 6. Exodus 5:10, 21; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 8:15; Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:22; Jeremiah 11:4
  • 7. Deuteronomy 8:15; Isaiah 14:29
  • 8. Isaiah 15:7; Isaiah 46:1, 2
  • 9. 1 Kings 10:2
  • 10. Isaiah 30:5
  • 11. Job 9:13; Psalms 87:4; Psalms 89:10; Isaiah 51:9
  • 12. Isaiah 8:1
  • 13. Isaiah 30:1
  • 14. Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 59:3, 4
  • 15. Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 24:5
  • 16. Isaiah 29:10
  • 17. Isaiah 5:20; Jeremiah 11:21; Amos 2:12; Amos 7:13
  • 18. 1 Kings 22:8, 13; Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 23:17, 26; Ezekiel 13:7; Romans 16:18; 2 Timothy 4:3, 4
  • 19. Acts 13:8
  • 20. Job 21:14
  • 21. Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 7:9; Isaiah 8:6
  • 22. Isaiah 3:14, 15; Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 59:13
  • 23. Isaiah 26:21
  • 24. 1 Kings 20:30; Psalms 62:4; Isaiah 58:12
  • 25. Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 47:11
  • 26. Psalms 2:9; Jeremiah 19:10, 11

Footnotes 13

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved.