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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 30
Israel scattered for rejecting her seers and prophets—She shall be
gathered and blessed temporally and spiritually—The Lord shall come in
a day of apostasy to judge and destroy the wicked.
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1 WOE to the
arebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
bcounsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into
Egypta, and have not asked
at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of
aPharaoh, and to trust bin the shadow of
cEgypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
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2a to go down into Egypt Now
the Lord had delievered Israel out of Egypt and yet when Israel was faced
with trouble they would often seek back unto Egypt for their protection and
delieverance though such a course was but to place themselves back in the
'service' of Egypt. In a figurative manner Egypt is representative of the
world and the arm of flesh and how often do we seek unto the alliances with
the world and the strength of the arms of men for our protection and
deliverance when it ought to be in the Lord that we trust for our strength
and deliverance?
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Do Not Rely Upon Egypt
Exactly what Isaiah warned the people about is that which they did in the
days of Lehi and Jeremiah. They did take counsel of the ungodly and not of
the prophets of the LORD. They did go down unto Egypt for their support to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh against Babylon. They
trusted in that shadow of what they supposed Egypt to be, great, but it was
not. And in that they relied upon Pharaoh it became their shame as Jerusalem
was destoryed. Isaiah had warned them, Jeremiah had warned them and Lehi
also had stood forth to warn them, yet they did not heed the words of the
prophets of God, but rather sought after the world and upon the arm of flesh
which did fail them when Babylon destoryed the holy city.
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4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They awere all
bashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor
be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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6 The aburden of the beasts of the
bsouth: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence
come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they
will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their
treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not
profit them.
7 For the aEgyptians shall help in
vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their
strength is to sit still.
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8 ¶ Now go, awrite it before
them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come
for ever and ever:
9 That athis is a
brebellious people, lying children, children that
will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the aseers, See
not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us
bsmooth things, prophesy cdeceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
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12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the
abreaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces;
he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a
sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the
pit.
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15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of
Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in
aquietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and
ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon
ahorses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon
the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of
one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon
the top of a mountain, and as an aensign on an hill.
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18 ¶ And therefore will the LORD
await, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will
he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God
of bjudgment: blessed are all they that wait for
him.
19 For the people shall dwell in
aZion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be
very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he
will answer thee.
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20 And though the Lord give you the bread of
aadversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not
bthy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine
eyes shall see thy cteachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This is the way, awalk ye in it, when ye
turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
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23 Then shall he give the rain aof
thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of
the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that
aear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been
winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
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25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and
upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the
aday of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the
light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,
and healeth the astroke of their wound.
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27 ¶ Behold, the aname of the
LORD cometh from far, burning with his banger, and
the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his abreath, as an
overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the bneck,
to sift the nations with the sieve of cvanity: and there
shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 aYe shall have a song, as in the
night when ba holy solemnity is kept; and gladness
of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the
cmountain of the LORD, to the dmighty One
of Israel.
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30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of
his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and atempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the
aAssyrian be beaten down, which
bsmote with a rod.
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32 And in every place where the grounded staff
shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with
tabrets and harps: and ain battles of shaking will he fight
bwith it.
33 For aTophet is ordained
of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep
and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath
of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
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