Isa 30 | EngLXX | STEP | Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord: you⌃ have framed counsel, not by me, and covenantsnot by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:

Isaiah 30

1 Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord: you⌃ have framed counsel, not by me, and covenantsnot by my Spirit, to add sins to sins: 2 even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they mightbe helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians. 3 For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, andthere shall be a reproach to them that trust in Egypt. 4 For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers. 5 In vain shall they laborin seeking to a people, which shall not profit them for help, butshall be for a shame and reproach. 6 THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress,where are the lion and lion's whelp, thencecome also asps, and the young of flying asps,there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profitthem. 7 The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain. 8 Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shallbe formany long days, and even for ever. 9 For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God: 10 who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions, Speakthem not to us, but speak and report to us another error; 11 and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracleof Israel. 12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you⌃ have refused to obey these words,and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident in this respect: 13 therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city hasbeen taken, of which the fall is very near at hand. 14 And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel,as small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find among them a sherd, with whichyou might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water. 15 Thus says the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When you shall turn and mourn, then youshall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you did trust in vanities:then your strength became vain, yet you⌃ would not hearken: 16 but you⌃ said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you⌃ flee: and, We will be aidedby swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on account ofthe voice of five; until you⌃ be left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one bearing an ensign upona hill. 18 And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted thathe may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that stay themselvesupon him. 19 For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: andwhereas Jerusalem has wept bitterly,saying, Pity me; he shall pity you: when he perceived the voice of your cry, he hearkened toyou. 20 Andthough the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that causeyou to err shall no more at all draw near to you; for your eyes shall see those that cause you to err, 21 and your ears shall hear the words of them that went after you to lead you astray, whosay, Thisis the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left. 22 And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the gilt ones,and shall scatter them as the water of a removedwoman, and you shall thrust them forth as dung. 23 Then shall there be rain to the seed of your land; and the bread of the fruit of yourland shall be plenteous and rich: and your cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place. 24 Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed barley. 25 And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water runningin that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall. 26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sunshall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the painof your wound. 27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes after along time, burning wrath: the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and theanger of his wrath shall devour as fire. 28 And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and bedivided, to confound the nations fortheir vain error: error also shall pursue them, and overtake them. 29 Must you⌃ always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep afeast? and must you⌃ go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of the Lord, to the Godof Israel? 30 And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his arm, tomake a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, andhis wrath shall be as water and violent hail. 31 For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome,even by the stroke wherewith he shall strike them. 32 And it shall happen to him from every side,that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall waragainst him in turn with drums and with harp. 33 For you shall be required beforeyour time: has it been prepared for you also to reign? nay, God hasprepared for you a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lordshall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.