XXX. 1 Ah, the rebellious sons, saith the LORD, that take counsel, and not of me ; and weave a web, and not with my spirit, that they may add sin to sin

2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the stronghold of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.

3 Therefore shall the stronghold of. Pharaoh be to yOu a shame, I and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

21. Or, ' offend in a cause.’ 22 Or, ‘ to the house of Jacob.'23. Or, ‘ when his children see the work...' ‘ count holy ’: or, ‘ sanctify.1. ‘ weave a web ’: or, ‘ cover with a covering ’: or, ‘ pour a libation ’: cf. xxix. ιο. Very doubtful.2. Perhaps, ‘are on their way to go down into ’ ‘trust’: or, take refuge, and correspondingly ver. 3.

4 For his princes are at Zoan, and his messengers have reached Hanes.

5 All shall be. ashamed of a people · shall not profit them, not for a help nor profit, but for a shame, and also a reproach.

6 The burden of the beasts of the south country. Through a land of distress and anguish, whence are the lioness and lion, viper and ﬂying ﬁery serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulder of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit

7 And Egypt, vain and empty will be their help: therefore I cry concerning this, Rahab are they, a sitting still.

8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and inscribe it in a book, and let it be for an after day, for ever and ever:

9 For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that will not hear the law of the LORD:

10 Which say to the seers, Ye shall not see, and to them that have vision, Have visions not of right things, speak unto us smooth things, see delusive visions.

11 Remove you out of the way, turn aside out of the path; make to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.

12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and crookedness, and stay thereon;

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as afalling breach, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometb suddenly, in a moment.

4. Or, ‘ When his princes shall be at Z..' c7. Lit. ‘ in vain and emptily will they help.'8. ‘ before them ’: or, ‘among (lit. with) them.9. ‘lying,’ or, ‘ renegade sons,' cf. lix. 13.11. ‘ cease': word means ‘ to sit still,' as ver. 7.

14 And he shall break it as a ’s jar is broken, shivering it unsparingly; and there shall not be found a sherd among the shivered fragments thereof, to take fire. from the hearth, or to draw water from a cistern.

15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved: in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye were unwilling.

16 And ye said, No: for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee; and. We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

17 one thousand from before the rebuke of one, before the rebuke of ﬁve shall ye ﬂee, till ye be left as a mast upon the top of a mountain, and like the ensign on the hill.

18 And therefore will the LORD wait, 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 judgment; happy are all that wait for him.

19 For a people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thdu shalt weep no mOre; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; as he heareth it, he answereth thee.

20 And the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction, and water of oppression; and thy teachers shall not withdraw any more, and thine eyes shall see thy teachers: