FUTURE FORETOLD

31. COG - ISAIAH - CH 30 - 39

30:15-33

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. *15

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. *16

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.   *17

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.    *18

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.     *19

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 anymore,
but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:    *20

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.    *21

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.   *22

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.    *23

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.    *24

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.    *25

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.    *26

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:   *27

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.    *28

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.    *29

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.    *30

For through the voice
of the LORD shall the Assyrian
be beaten down,
which smote with a rod.    *31

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.   *32