that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
030:009 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who
will not hear the law of Yahweh;
030:010 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets,
"Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things.
Prophesy deceits.
030:011 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path.
Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
030:012 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and rely on it;
030:013 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready
to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes
suddenly in an instant.
030:014 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it
in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among
the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth,
or to dip up water out of the cistern."
030:015 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will
be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in
quietness and in confidence." You refused,
030:016 but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;"
therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;"
therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
030:017 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat
of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon
on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
030:018 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you;
and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you,
for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who
wait for him.
030:019 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep
no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice
of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
030:020 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water
of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore,
but your eyes will see your teachers;
030:021 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left,
your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way.
Walk in it."
030:022 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images
of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold.
You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall
tell it, "Go away!"
030:023 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow
the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be
rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed
in large pastures.
030:024 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will
eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel
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