Isaiah 30:6-11

Common English Bible

⁶An oracle about the beasts in the arid southern plain.

Through a land of distress and danger,
    lioness and roaring^[a] lion, viper and flying serpent,
    they will carry their wealth on donkeys’ shoulders
    and their treasures on camels’ humps to a people who won’t profit,
⁷        for Egypt’s help is utterly worthless.
Therefore, I call her Rahab Who Sits Still.^[b]

⁸Now go, write it before them on a tablet,
    inscribe it on a scroll,
    so in the future it will endure as a witness.
⁹These are rebellious people, lying children,
    children unwilling to hear the Lord’s teaching,
¹⁰    who say to the seers, “Don’t foresee,”
    and to the visionaries, “Don’t report truthful visions;
        tell us flattering things;
        envision deceptions;
¹¹        get out of the way;
        step off the path;
        let’s have no more ‘holy one of Israel.’”