Isaiah 30 (NET)

Isaiah 30:1¹“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the Lord, “those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 65:2Isa 1:2Hos 7:13Isa 63:10Hos 4:10-12Isa 29:15Rom 2:52 Tim 3:13Acts 7:51-52Ezek 3:9

Isaiah 30:2²They travel down to Egypt without seeking my will, seeking Pharaoh’s protection, and looking for safety in Egypt’s protective shade.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 36:6Num 27:21Deut 28:68Ezek 29:6-7Jer 42:20Jer 43:7Lam 4:201 Kgs 22:72 Kgs 17:4Isa 16:3

Isaiah 30:3³But Pharaoh’s protection will bring you nothing but shame, and the safety of Egypt’s protective shade nothing but humiliation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 20:5Jer 17:5-6Rom 10:11Rom 5:5Isa 30:5-7Isa 36:6Isa 45:16-17Jer 37:5-10

Isaiah 30:4⁴Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 19:11Isa 57:9Jer 43:72 Kgs 17:4Ezek 30:14Ezek 30:18Hos 7:11-12Hos 7:16Num 13:22

Isaiah 30:5⁵all will be put to shame because of a nation that cannot help them, who cannot give them aid or help, but only shame and disgrace.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:36Isa 30:7Isa 20:5-6Isa 30:16Isa 31:1-3

Isaiah 30:6⁶This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 8:15Isa 46:1-2Deut 4:20Jer 11:41 Kgs 10:2Hos 8:9-102 Chr 16:22 Chr 28:20-232 Chr 9:1Deut 17:16

Isaiah 30:7⁷Egypt is totally incapable of helping. For this reason I call her “Proud one who is silenced.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 2:22Hos 5:13Isa 31:1-5Isa 7:4Lam 3:26Ps 118:8-9Exod 14:13Isa 28:12Isa 51:9Jer 37:7

Isaiah 30:8⁸Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 31:22Hab 2:2Isa 8:1Deut 31:19Jer 36:2Jer 36:28-32Jer 51:60Job 19:23-25Num 24:14Deut 4:30

Isaiah 30:9⁹For these are rebellious people— they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord ’s law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 30:1Acts 7:51Isa 1:4Prov 28:9Rev 21:8Zech 1:4-6Zech 7:11-12Zeph 3:22 Chr 33:102 Chr 36:15-16

Isaiah 30:10¹⁰They say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!” and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things; relate deceptive messages.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 13:7-10Rom 16:18Amos 2:12Amos 7:13Jer 11:21Jer 23:17Jer 23:26-29Rev 11:71 Kgs 21:201 Kgs 22:27

Isaiah 30:11¹¹Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:7Amos 7:13Eph 4:18Isa 29:21Job 21:14John 15:23-24Rom 1:28Rom 1:30

Isaiah 30:12¹²For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 31:1-31 Thess 4:8Amos 2:4Isa 5:24Isa 47:10Luke 10:162 Sam 12:9-10Isa 28:15Isa 30:1Isa 30:15-17

Isaiah 30:13¹³So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 13:10-15Isa 29:51 Kgs 20:30Prov 29:1Ps 62:31 Thess 5:1-3Job 36:18Luke 6:49Matt 7:27Ps 73:19-20

Isaiah 30:14¹⁴It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 2:9Jer 19:10-112 Pet 2:4-5Rev 2:27Ezek 24:14Rom 11:21Deut 29:20Ezek 15:3-8Ezek 5:11Ezek 7:4

Isaiah 30:15¹⁵For this is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me, you would find strength, but you are unwilling.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 26:3-4Isa 32:17Jer 3:22-23Ps 125:1-2John 5:401 Chr 5:202 Chr 16:8Luke 13:342 Chr 32:8Isa 7:4

Isaiah 30:16¹⁶You say, ‘No, we will flee on horses,’ so you will indeed flee. You say, ‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 31:1Amos 9:1Deut 28:25Isa 31:3Jer 4:13Ps 33:17Amos 2:14-16Deut 28:49Hab 1:8Isa 10:28-32

Isaiah 30:17¹⁷One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:25Deut 32:30Josh 23:10Lev 26:36Lev 26:8John 15:2-6Prov 28:1Rom 11:17Isa 1:7-8Isa 27:11

Isaiah 30:18¹⁸For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the Lord is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:9Lam 3:25-26Prov 16:20Isa 25:9Isa 8:17Ps 34:82 Pet 3:15Isa 55:8Luke 15:20Ps 27:14

Isaiah 30:19¹⁹For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem you will weep no more. When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 60:20Isa 65:24Ps 50:15Isa 58:9Matt 7:7-111 John 5:14-15Rev 7:17Isa 25:8Luke 6:21Jer 33:3

Isaiah 30:20²⁰The Lord will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:27Ps 80:5Amos 8:11-12Acts 14:22Ps 127:2Ps 74:9Deut 16:3Ps 102:9Ps 30:5Eph 4:11

Isaiah 30:21²¹You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying, “This is the correct way, walk in it,” whether you are heading to the right or the left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 32:8Prov 3:5-6Isa 58:11Isa 42:16Deut 5:32Isa 35:8-9Ps 143:8-10Jer 6:16Isa 48:17Josh 1:7

Isaiah 30:22²²You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, “Get out!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 31:7Judg 17:3-4Isa 46:6Zech 13:2Exod 32:2-4Ezek 36:31Hos 14:8Isa 17:7-8Isa 2:20-212 Chr 31:1

Isaiah 30:23²³He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 8:11-12Isa 32:20Ps 65:9-131 Tim 4:8Amos 4:7-8Gen 41:18Isa 58:11Joel 2:21-26Mal 3:10Ps 104:13-14

Isaiah 30:24²⁴The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 45:6Deut 25:41 Cor 9:9-101 Sam 8:12Deut 21:4Exod 34:21Luke 3:17Matt 3:12

Isaiah 30:25²⁵On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 2:14-15Isa 35:6-7Isa 43:19-202 Cor 10:4Ezek 17:22Ezek 34:13Ezek 34:26Ezek 39:17-20Isa 32:14Isa 34:2-10

Isaiah 30:26²⁶The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare, and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 60:19-20Deut 32:39Rev 22:5Rev 21:23Isa 24:23Job 5:18Zech 14:7Jer 33:5-6Zech 12:8Hos 6:1

Isaiah 30:27²⁷Look, the name of the Lord comes from a distant place in raging anger and awesome splendor. He speaks angrily, and his word is like destructive fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:8Dan 7:9Deut 32:22Deut 33:2Heb 12:29Isa 10:16-17Isa 10:5Isa 33:12Isa 34:9Isa 59:19

Isaiah 30:28²⁸His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:292 Thess 2:8Isa 11:4Isa 8:82 Kgs 19:28Amos 9:9Luke 22:31Heb 4:12Rev 2:161 Kgs 22:20-22

Isaiah 30:29²⁹You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 42:4Exod 15:1-21Ps 95:1-2Deut 16:6Deut 32:4Isa 2:3Isa 26:4Matt 26:30Ps 81:1-4Rev 15:3

Isaiah 30:30³⁰The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 29:6Ps 18:13-14Josh 10:11Ezek 38:19-22Isa 28:2Nah 1:2-6Rev 11:19Rev 16:18-212 Thess 1:8Isa 32:19

Isaiah 30:31³¹Indeed, the Lord ’s shout will shatter Assyria; he will beat them with a club.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:5Isa 11:4Isa 9:4Mic 5:5-6Ps 125:5Ps 17:13-14Isa 10:12Isa 10:15Isa 10:24Isa 30:30

Isaiah 30:32³²Every blow from his punishing cudgel with which the Lord will beat them will be accompanied by music from the tambourine and harp, and he will attack them with his weapons.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 11:15Ezek 32:10Isa 19:16Isa 2:19Ps 81:1-21 Sam 10:5Gen 31:27Heb 12:26Isa 24:8Isa 30:29

Isaiah 30:33³³For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord ’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:10Gen 19:24Jer 19:61 Pet 1:8Heb 13:8Jer 19:11-14Jer 7:31-32Matt 4:22Rev 14:10-11Rev 19:18-20