1 "Woe to the obstinate children," declares the LORD, "to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;2 who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh's protection, to Egypt's shade for refuge.3 But Pharaoh's protection will be to your shame, Egypt's shade will bring you disgrace.4 Though they have officials in Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,5 everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace."6 A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,7 to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.8 Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.9 For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.10 They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.11 Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!"12 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,13 this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.14 It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.16 You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.' Therefore you will flee! You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.' Therefore your pursuers will be swift!17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."18 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!19 People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."22 Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!"23 He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.25 In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.26 The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.27 See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.28 His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.29 And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.30 The LORD will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.31 The voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria; with his rod he will strike them down.32 Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.33 Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

1 [V filii desertores, dicit Dominus,ut faceretis consilium, et non ex me,et ordiremini telam, et non per spiritum meum,ut adderetis peccatum super peccatum ;2 qui ambulatis ut descendatis in gyptum,et os meum non interrogastis,sperantes auxilium in fortitudine Pharaonis,et habentes fiduciam in umbra gypti !3 Et erit vobis fortitudo Pharaonis in confusionem,et fiducia umbr gypti in ignominiam.4 Erant enim in Tani principes tui,et nuntii tui usque ad Hanes pervenerunt.5 Omnes confusi sunt super populo qui eis prodesse non potuit :non fuerunt in auxilium et in aliquam utilitatem,sed in confusionem et in opprobrium.] 6 Onus jumentorum austri. [In terra tribulationis et angustilena, et leo ex eis,vipera et regulus volans ;portantes super humeros jumentorum divitias suas,et super gibbum camelorum thesauros suos,ad populum qui eis prodesse non poterit.7 gyptus enim frustra et vane auxiliabitur.Ideo clamavi super hoc : Superbia tantum est, quiesce.8 Nunc ergo ingressus, scribe ei super buxum,et in libro diligenter exara illud,et erit in die novissimoin testimonium usque in ternum.9 Populus enim ad iracundiam provocans est :et filii mendaces,filii nolentesaudire legem Dei ;10 qui dicunt videntibus : Nolite videre,et aspicientibus : Nolite aspicere nobis ea qu recta sunt ;loquimini nobis placentia :videte nobis errores.11 Auferte a me viam ;declinate a me semitam ;cesset a facie nostraSanctus Isral.12 Propterea hc dicit Sanctus Isral : Pro eo quod reprobastis verbum hoc,et sperastis in calumnia et in tumultu,et innixi estis super eo ;13 propterea erit vobis iniquitas hcsicut interruptio cadens,et requisita in muro excelso,quoniam subito, dum non speratur, veniet contritio ejus.14 Et comminuetur sicut conteritur lagena figulicontritione pervalida,et non invenietur de fragmentis ejus testain qua portetur igniculus de incendio,aut hauriatur parum aqu de fovea.15 Quia hc dicit Dominus Deus, Sanctus Isral :Si revertamini et quiescatis, salvi eritis ;in silentio et in spe erit fortitudo vestra.Et noluistis,16 et dixistis : Nequaquam,sed ad equos fugiemus :ideo fugietis ;et : Super veloces ascendemus :ideo velociores erunt qui persequentur vos.17 Mille homines a facie terroris unius ;et a facie terroris quinque fugietis,donec relinquaminiquasi malus navis in vertice montis,et quasi signum super collem.18 Propterea exspectat Dominus ut misereatur vestri ;et ideo exaltabitur parcens vobis,quia Deus judicii Dominus :beati omnes qui exspectant eum !19 Populus enim Sion habitabit in Jerusalem :plorans nequaquam plorabis :miserans miserebitur tui, ad vocem clamoris tui :statim ut audierit, respondebit tibi.20 Et dabit vobis Dominuspanem arctum, et aquam brevem ;et non faciet avolare a te ultra doctorem tuum ;et erunt oculi tui videntes prceptorem tuum.21 Et aures tu audient verbum post tergum monentis :Hc est via ; ambulate in ea,et non declinetis neque ad dexteram, neque ad sinistram.22 Et contaminabis laminas sculptilium argenti tui,et vestimentum conflatilis auri tui,et disperges ea sicut immunditiam menstruat.Egredere, dices ei.23 Et dabitur pluvia semini tuo,ubicumque seminaveris in terra,et panis frugum terrerit uberrimus et pinguis ;pascetur in possessione tua in die illo agnus spatiose,24 et tauri tui, et pulli asinorum,qui operantur terram,commistum migma comedentsicut in area ventilatum est.25 Et erunt super omnem montem excelsum,et super omnem collem elevatum,rivi currentium aquarum,in die interfectionis multorum,cum ceciderint turres :26 et erit lux lun sicut lux solis,et lux solis erit septemplicitersicut lux septem dierum,in die qua alligaverit Dominus vulnus populi sui,et percussuram plag ejus sanaverit.27 Ecce nomen Domini venit de longinquo,ardens furor ejus, et gravis ad portandum ;labia ejus repleta sunt indignatione,et lingua ejus quasi ignis devorans.28 Spiritus ejus velut torrensinundans usque ad medium colli,ad perdendas gentes in nihilum,et frenum erroris quod erat in maxillis populorum.29 Canticum erit vobissicut nox sanctificat solemnitatis,et ltitia cordissicut qui pergit cum tibia,ut intret in montem Dominiad Fortem Isral.30 Et auditam faciet Dominus gloriam vocis su,et terrorem brachii sui ostendetin comminatione furoris, et flamma ignis devorantis :allidet in turbine, et in lapide grandinis.31 A voce enim Domini pavebit Assurvirga percussus.32 Et erit transitus virg fundatus,quam requiescere faciet Dominus super eumin tympanis et citharis ;et in bellis prcipuis expugnabit eos.33 Prparata est enim ab heri Topheth,a rege prparata,profunda, et dilatata.Nutrimenta ejus, ignis et ligna multa ;flatus Domini sicut torrens sulphuris succendens eam.]