Isa 30:8-17 | ESV | STEP | And now , go , write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book , that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever .

Isaiah 30:8-17

A Rebellious People

8 And now, go, ^awrite it before them on a tablet
and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
as a witness forever. ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate, and Greek versions; Masoretic Text forever and ever}
9 ^cFor they are a rebellious people,
lying children,
children unwilling to hear
the instruction of the Lord;
10 ^dwho say to ^ethe seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us ^fsmooth things,
prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Because you despise this word
and trust in ^goppression and perverseness
and rely on them,
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you
^hlike a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
14 and its breaking is ⁱlike that of a potter’s vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
with which to take fire from the hearth,
or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
“In ^jreturning ^{▼▼Or repentance} and ^lrest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
But you were unwilling, 16 and you said,
“No! We will flee upon ^mhorses”;
therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
17 ⁿA thousand shall flee at the threat of one;
at the threat of five you shall flee,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
like a signal on a hill.