TSK · Isaiah 30:1

Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the LORD against the Israelites.

You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the LORD’s advice.

Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

I will be a permanent guest in your home; I will find shelter in the protection of your wings.(Selah)

Obedience, not Sacrifice Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the LORD speaks:“I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole heart is sick.

Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Darkness Turns to Light as an Ideal King Arrives They will say to you,“Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?”

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.

For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

I spread out my hands all day long to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and who did what they desired.

They will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field because they have rebelled against me,” says the LORD.

He said to me,“Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day.

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.

They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the LORD by pursuing other gods.

A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.