24AND THEY WILL KNOW [THOSE WHO] GO ASTRAY OF SPIRIT UNDERSTANDING AND MURMURERS THEY WILL LEARN INSTRUCTION 24Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”
1WOE TO! CHILDREN [WHO ARE] REBELLIOUS [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH BY MAKING A PLAN AND NOT FROM ME AND BY POURING OUT A LIBATION AND NOT SPIRIT MY SO AS TO ADD SIN TO SIN The Worthless Treaty with Egypt 1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
2WHO GO TO GO DOWN EGYPT AND MOUTH MY NOT THEY HAVE CONSULTED TO TAKE REFUGE IN [THE] REFUGE OF PHARAOH AND TO SEEK REFUGE IN [THE] SHADOW OF EGYPT 2They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.
3AND IT WILL BECOME FOR YOU [THE] REFUGE OF PHARAOH <INTO> SHAME AND THE REFUGE IN [THE] SHADOW OF EGYPT <INTO> IGNOMINY 3But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
4FOR THEY HAVE BEEN IN ZOAN OFFICIALS ITS AND MESSENGERS ITS HANES THEY HAVE REACHED 4For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
5EVERYONE HE WILL BE ASHAMED ON A PEOPLE [WHICH] NOT THEY WILL CONFER PROFIT TO THEM NOT FOR HELP AND NOT TO CONFER PROFIT FOR FOR SHAME AND ALSO FOR REPROACH 5everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”
6[THE] ORACLE OF [THE] ANIMALS OF [THE] NEGEV IN A LAND OF TROUBLE AND DISTRESS LIONESS AND LION FROM THEM VIPER AND SERPENT FLYING THEY CARRY ON [THE] SHOULDER OF DONKEYS WEALTH<S> THEIR AND ON [THE] HUMP OF CAMELS TREASURES THEIR TO A PEOPLE [WHICH] NOT THEY WILL CONFER PROFIT 6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
7AND EGYPT FUTILITY AND VANITY THEY WILL HELP <TO> THEREFORE I CALL <TO> THIS [ONE] RAHAB THEY A SITTING STILL 7Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.*NoteCloseHebrew Rahab-hem-shebeth
8NOW GO WRITE IT ON A TABLET WITH THEM AND ON A SCROLL INSCRIBE IT SO MAY IT BE FOR A DAY FUTURE FOR EVER UNTIL PERPETUITY 8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
9FOR [IS] A PEOPLE OF REBELLION IT CHILDREN LYING CHILDREN [WHO] NOT THEY HAVE BEEN WILLING TO HEAR [THE] LAW OF YAHWEH 9These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
10WHO THEY HAVE SAID TO THE SEERS NOT YOU MUST SEE AND TO THE SEERS NOT YOU MUST SEE FOR US STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS<ES> SPEAK TO US FLATTERING [WORDS] SEE DECEPTION<S> 10They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
11TURN AWAY FROM [THE] WAY TURN ASIDE FROM [THE] PATH CAUSE TO CEASE FROM BEFORE US <OBJ.> [THE] HOLY [ONE] OF ISRAEL 11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
12<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS [THE] HOLY [ONE] OF ISRAEL BECAUSE HAVE REJECTED YOU <IN> THE WORD <THE> THIS AND YOU HAVE TRUSTED IN OPPRESSION AND A CROOKED [THING] AND YOU HAVE DEPENDED ON IT 12Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit
13<TO> THEREFORE IT WILL BECOME FOR YOU THE INIQUITY <THE> THIS LIKE A BREACH ABOUT TO FALL BULGING IN A WALL HIGH WHICH SUDDENLY TO SUDDENNESS IT WILL COME BREAKING ITS 13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
14AND SOMEONE WILL BREAK IT LIKE [THE] BREAKING OF A JAR OF POTTERS CRUSHED [WHICH] NOT ANYONE WILL SPARE AND NOT IT WILL BE FOUND AMONG FRAGMENT[S] ITS A POTSHERD TO SNATCH UP FIRE FROM A FIREPLACE AND TO SCOOP WATER FROM A CISTERN 14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
15FOR THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH [THE] HOLY [ONE] OF ISRAEL IN RETURNING AND REST YOU WILL BE DELIVERED! IN BEING QUIET AND IN TRUSTING IT WILL BE STRENGTH YOUR AND NOT YOU WERE WILLING 15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”
16AND YOU SAID IN- DEED ON HORSE[S] WE WILL FLEE THERE- -FORE YOU WILL FLEE! AND ON SWIFT [HORSE][S] WE WILL RIDE THERE- -FORE THEY WILL PROVE SWIFT [THOSE WHO] PURSUE YOU 16“No,” you say,. we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
17A THOUSAND ONE <FROM> BECAUSE OF [THE] THREAT OF ONE <FROM> BECAUSE OF [THE] THREAT OF FIVE YOU WILL FLEE UNTIL <IF> YOU HAVE BEEN LEFT LIKE <THE> FLAGSTAFF ON [THE] TOP OF <THE> MOUNTAIN AND LIKE <THE> STANDARD ON <THE> HILL 17A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.
18AND <TO> THEREFORE HE IS WAITING YAHWEH TO SHOW FAVOR TO YOU AND <TO> THEREFORE HE IS RISING UP TO HAVE COMPASSION ON YOU FOR [IS] A GOD OF JUSTICE YAHWEH HOW BLESSED! [ARE] ALL [THOSE WHO] WAIT FOR HIM God Will Be Gracious 18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
19FOR A PEOPLE IN ZION IT WILL DWELL IN JERUSALEM CERTAINLY <WEEP> NOT YOU WILL WEEP CERTAINLY <TO SHOW FAVOR> HE WILL SHOW FAVOR TO YOU TO [THE] SOUND OF CRYING OUT YOU WHEN HEARS HE HE WILL ANSWER YOU 19O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.
20AND HE WILL GIVE TO YOU [THE] LORD BREAD DISTRESS AND WATER OPPRESSION AND NOT HE WILL HIDE HIMSELF AGAIN TEACHERS YOUR AND THEY WILL BE EYES YOUR SEEING <OBJ.> TEACHERS YOUR 20The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself— with your own eyes you will see Him.
21AND EARS YOUR THEY WILL HEAR A WORD FROM BEHIND YOU <TO> SAYING THIS [IS] THE WAY WALK IN <THE> IT THAT YOU WILL GO TO [THE] RIGHT AND THAT YOU WILL GO TO [THE] LEFT 21And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
22AND YOU WILL MAKE UNCLEAN <OBJ.> [THE] PLATING OF [THE] IMAGES OF SILVER YOUR AND <OBJ.> [THE] SHEATHING OF [THE] MOLTEN IMAGE OF GOLD YOUR YOU WILL THROW AWAY THEM LIKE A MENSTRUAL [RAG] FILTH YOU WILL SAY TO IT 22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
23AND HE WILL GIVE [THE] RAIN OF SEED YOUR WHICH YOU WILL SOW <OBJ.> THE GROUND AND [WILL BE] FOOD [THE] PRODUCE OF THE GROUND AND IT WILL BE FAT AND FAT IT WILL GRAZE LIVESTOCK YOUR IN THE DAY <THE> THAT PASTURE ROOMY 23Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
24AND THE CATTLE<S> AND THE DONKEYS [WHICH] WORK <OF> THE GROUND FODDER SALTED THEY WILL EAT WHICH [SOMEONE HAS BEEN] WINNOWING WITH THE SHOVEL AND WITH THE PITCHFORK 24The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
25AND IT WILL BE ON EVERY MOUNTAIN HIGH AND ON EVERY HILL LIFTED UP STREAMS WATERCOURSES OF WATER IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER GREAT WHEN FALL TOWERS 25And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26AND IT WILL BE [THE] LIGHT OF THE MOON LIKE [THE] LIGHT OF THE SUN AND [THE] LIGHT OF THE SUN IT WILL BE SEVENFOLD LIKE [THE] LIGHT OF SEVEN <THE> DAYS ON [THE] DAY BINDS UP YAHWEH <OBJ.> [THE] FRACTURE OF PEOPLE HIS AND [THE] WOUND OF BLOW HIS HE WILL HEAL 26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter— like the light of seven days— on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
27THERE! [THE] NAME OF YAHWEH [IS] COMING FROM A DISTANCE [IS] BURNING ANGER HIS AND [IS] HEAVINESS OF LIFTING UP LIPS HIS THEY ARE FULL INDIGNATION AND TONGUE HIS [IS] LIKE A FIRE CONSUMING 27Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
28AND BREATH HIS [IS] LIKE A TORRENT OVERFLOWING TO [THE] NECK IT REACHES FOR SHAKING NATIONS IN A SIEVE OF WORTHLESSNESS AND A HALTER [WHICH] LEADS ASTRAY [IS] ON [THE] JAWS OF PEOPLES 28His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
29<THE> SONG IT WILL BELONG TO YOU LIKE A NIGHT OF BEING CONSECRATED OF A FESTIVAL AND GLADNESS OF HEART LIKE <THE> [ONE WHO] WALKS WITH <THE> FLUTE TO GO ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF YAHWEH TO [THE] ROCK OF ISRAEL 29You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
30AND HE WILL CAUSE TO HEAR YAHWEH <OBJ.> [THE] MAJESTY OF VOICE HIS AND [THE] LOWERING OF ARM HIS HE WILL SHOW WITH RAGE OF ANGER AND A FLAME OF FIRE CONSUMING A DRIVING STORM AND A RAINSTORM AND STONE[S] OF HAIL 30And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
31FOR FROM [THE] VOICE OF YAHWEH IT WILL BE SHATTERED ASSYRIA WITH THE ROD HE WILL STRIKE 31For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.
32AND IT WILL BE EVERY BLOW OF [THE] STAFF OF APPOINTMENT WHICH HE WILL PLACE YAHWEH ON IT [WILL BE] WITH TAMBOURINES AND WITH HARPS AND WITH BATTLES OF BRANDISHING HE WILL FIGHT AGAINST THEM 32And with every stroke of the rod of punishment*NoteCloseSome Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac; MT the rod of foundation; DSS the rod of His foundation that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.
33FOR [IS] ARRANGED FROM YESTERDAY A PLACE OF BURNING ALSO IT FOR THE KING IT HAS BEEN PREPARED SOMEONE HAS MADE [IT] DEEP SOMEONE HAS MADE [IT] LARGE WOOD PILE ITS [IS] FIRE AND WOOD<S> MUCH [THE] BREATH OF YAHWEH LIKE A TORRENT OF SULFUR [IS] ABOUT TO BURN <IN> <THE> IT 33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze