30:18 For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy;

he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. ¹ 

Indeed, the Lord is a just God;

all who wait for him in faith will be blessed. ² 

30:19 For people will live in Zion;

in Jerusalem ³  you will weep no more. ⁴ 

When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy;

when he hears it, he will respond to you. ⁵ 

30:20 The sovereign master ⁶  will give you distress to eat

and suffering to drink; ⁷ 

but your teachers will no longer be hidden;

your eyes will see them. ⁸ 

30:21 You ⁹  will hear a word spoken behind you, saying,

“This is the correct ¹⁰  way, walk in it,”

whether you are heading to the right or the left.

30:22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols ¹¹ 

and your gold-plated images. ¹² 

You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag,

saying to them, “Get out!”

30:23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground,

and the ground will produce crops in abundance. ¹³ 

At that time ¹⁴  your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

30:24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing ¹⁵ 

will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork. ¹⁶ 

30:25 On every high mountain

and every high hill

there will be streams flowing with water,

at the time of ¹⁷  great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

30:26 The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare

and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter,

like the light of seven days, ¹⁸ 

when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones ¹⁹ 

and heals their severe wound. ²⁰ 

30:27 Look, the name ²¹  of the Lord comes from a distant place

in raging anger and awesome splendor. ²² 

He speaks angrily

and his word is like destructive fire. ²³ 

30:28 His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river ²⁴ 

that reaches one’s neck.

He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; ²⁵ 

he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction. ²⁶ 

30:29 You will sing

as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival.

You will be happy like one who plays a flute

as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel. ²⁷ 

30:30 The Lord will give a mighty shout ²⁸ 

and intervene in power, ²⁹ 

with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, ³⁰ 

with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

30:31 Indeed, the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria; ³¹ 

he will beat them with a club.

30:32 Every blow from his punishing cudgel, ³² 

with which the Lord will beat them, ³³ 

will be accompanied by music from the ³⁴  tambourine and harp,

and he will attack them with his weapons. ³⁵ 

30:33 For ³⁶  the burial place is already prepared; ³⁷ 

it has been made deep and wide for the king. ³⁸ 

The firewood is piled high on it. ³⁹ 

The Lord’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone,

will ignite it.

33:1 Jacob looked up ¹  and saw that Esau was coming ²  along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.