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13 therefore, for you this sin will become
    like a breach in a high wall that is about to collapse,
        bulging out,
    and whose crash comes suddenly—in an instant.
14 Its breaking will be like when potters’ vessels are broken,
    shattered so ruthlessly[a]
that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found
    for taking fire from a hearth
        or scooping water out of a cistern.”

15 For this is what the Lord[b] God,[c] the Holy One of Israel, says:

“In repentance and rest you will be saved;
    in staying calm and trusting will be your strength.
        But you refused.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:14 Lit. broken—they do not take pity; so 1QIsaa; MT reads broken—he does not take pity
  2. Isaiah 30:15 So 1QIsaa
  3. Isaiah 30:15 So 1QIsaa corrector