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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of
the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to
cease from before us. Wherefore thus
saith the Holy One of Israel, Because
ye despise this word, and trust in
oppression and perverseness, and
stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity
shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall,
whose breaking cometh suddenly
at an instant. And he shall break
it as the breaking of the potters’
vessel that is broken in pieces;
he shall not spare: so that there
shall not be found in the bursting
of it a sherd to take fire from the
hearth, or to take water withal out
of the pit. 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 would not. But 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.
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke
of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye
flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon
the top of a mountain, and as an ensign
on an hill. 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: blessed are all they
that wait for him. For the people shall
dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt
weep no more: he will be very gracious
unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when
he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And
though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet
shall not thy teachers be removed into a
corner any more, but thine eyes shall see
thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a
word behind thee, saying, This is the way,
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
and when ye turn to the left. Ye shall defile
also the covering of thy graven images of
silver, and the ornament of thy molten
images of gold: thou shalt cast them away
as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it,
Get thee hence. Then shall he give the rain
of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground
withal; and bread of the increase of the earth,
and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day
shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. The
oxen likewise and the young asses that ear
the ground shall eat clean provender, which
hath been winnowed with the shovel and
with the fan. And there shall be upon every
high mountain, and upon every high hill,
rivers and streams of waters in the day of
the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Moreover the light of the moon shall be
as the light of the sun, and the light of the
sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of
seven days, in the day that the LORD
bindeth up the breach of his people,
and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh
from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full
of indignation, and his tongue as a
devouring fire: And his breath, as an
overflowing stream, shall reach to the
midst of the neck, to sift the nations
with the sieve of vanity: and there shall
be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to err. Ye shall have a song,
as in the night when a holy solemnity is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one
goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain
of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
And the LORD shall cause his glorious
voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting
down of his arm, with the indignation of his
anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire,
with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
For through the voice of the LORD shall the
Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a
rod. And in every place where the grounded
staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon
him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in
battles of shaking will he fight with it.
Isaiah 30:11:32
