30 Ruth

13 Isaiah 30:1-3
¹Woe to the rebellious sons, says Yahvah, who take counsel, but not of me; and who offer wine offerings, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
²who start to go down to Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves by the strength of pharaoh, and to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt.
³Therefore the strength of pharaoh will be to your shame, and the shelter of the shadow of Egypt to your confusion.

13 Isaiah 30:4-31:0
⁴For while pharaoh is in Zoan, his princes and ambassadors will act deceitfully.
⁵They go to a people that cannot profit them, neither be help nor a profit, but shame and disgrace.

⁶The prophecy concerning the oppressors of the south. Into a land of trouble and anguish, where the lion and the young lion comes from, the viper and the fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that will not profit them.
⁷For the Egyptians will help in vain and in falsehood; therefore I have warned them, for this their trust is in vain.

⁸Now come, write it on these tablets and on the book of their contract, that it may be for the time to come, for a witness forever and ever;
⁹for this is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the law of Yahvah;
¹⁰who have said to the seers, Do not see; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us reproof; speak to us deception, prophesy lies;
¹¹get out of the way, turn from the path, cause the holy one of Israel to cease from before us.
¹²Therefore Yahvah the holy one of Israel says: Because you have despised this word and trusted in oppression and have complained yet trusted in it;
¹³therefore this iniquity will be to you as a breach ready to fall and as a high wall whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.
¹⁴And its breaking is as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces, without pity; so that there will not be found in its fragments a shard to take fire from the land or to take water with it out of the cistern.

¹⁵Therefore Master Yahvah the holy one of Israel says: When you will repent and rest, you will be saved; in quietness and in hope, will be your strength; but you would not listen.
¹⁶But you said, Not so, for we will ride on horses, and will flee on swift ones; therefore you will flee, and your pursuers will be swift.
¹⁷1,000 will flee at the rebuke of 1; at the rebuke of 5 you will flee until you are left as a beacon on the top of a mountain and as an ensign on a hill.

¹⁸Therefore Yahvah will begin to be gracious to you, and therefore he will be exalted that he may have mercy on you; for Yahvah is a god of judgment; blessed are all those who wait for him.

¹⁹For the people will live in Zion at Jerusalem; you will not weep any longer; he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he will hear it, he will answer you.
²⁰And though master give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet he will not gather any longer those who have caused you to err, and your eyes will see the misfortune of those who have caused you to err;
²¹and your ears will hear a word behind you saying, This is the way, walk in it, and do not turn aside, either to the right hand or to the left.
²²And you will defile the silver which is overlaid on your idols, and the ornament of your molten images of gold; you will cast them away like unclean water of a menstruous woman; and you will take them outside like rubbish.

²³Then he will give rain to your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and grain of the increase of the land, and it will be fertile and plentiful; on that day, your cattle will graze in rich pastures.
²⁴The oxen and the young bulls that till the ground will eat clean provender which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
²⁵And there will be on every high mountain and on every high hill, flowing streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.
²⁶Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be 7-fold, as the light of 7 days, in the day that Yahvah binds up the breach of his people and heals the pain of their wound.

²⁷Look, the name of Yahvah comes from far away, his wrath burns and his train is glorious; his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire;
²⁸and his breath as an overflowing torrent will reach up to the neck to confuse the nations because of their erring vanity, and because of the bridle which is in the jaws of the nations, which causes them to err.

²⁹You will have a song, even a garland which is sanctified in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one walks rejoicing to come to the mountain of Yahvah, to the mighty one of Israel.
³⁰And Yahvah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the striking of his arm with the indignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire, with the rainstorm and tempest and hailstones.
³¹For from before the excellency of Yahvah, the Assyrian will be defeated and struck with a rod.
³²And in all his works, the staff of affliction which Yahvah will lay on him will be with tabrets and harps; and with a fierce battle he will fight against him.
³³For he has prepared his punishment of old; yes, it is prepared to be executed; he has made it deep and large in his dwelling place; the wood and the fire are plentiful; the breath of Yahvah, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.