Isa 30:18-33 | ESV | STEP | Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice ; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 30:18-33

The Lord Will Be Gracious

18 Therefore the Lord ^awaits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he ^bexalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
^cblessed are all those who wait for him.
19 For a people shall dwell ^din Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. 20 And though the Lord give you the ^ebread of adversity and the ^fwater of affliction, ^gyet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21 ^hAnd your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is ⁱthe way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 22 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. ^jYou will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”

23 ^kAnd he will give ^lrain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. ^mIn that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, 24 and ⁿthe oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 And ^oon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, ^pwhen the towers fall. 26 ^qMoreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when ^rthe Lord binds up ^sthe brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; ^{▼▼Hebrew in weight of uplifted clouds}
his lips are full of fury,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
28 ^uhis breath is ^vlike an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws of the peoples ^wa bridle that leads astray.
29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, ^xas when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to ^ythe mountain of the Lord, to ^zthe Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord ^aawill cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger ^aband a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst ^acand storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, ^adwhen he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them ^aewill be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. ^afBattling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For ^aga burning place ^{▼▼Or For Topheth} has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, ^aiits pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; ^ajthe breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.