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13 therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall,
    bulging out on a high wall that breaks[a] suddenly, in an instant.
14 And he breaks it like a vessel of a potter[b] breaks,
    that is crushed; he has no compassion,
and no potsherd is found among its fragments[c] to take fire[d] from the hearth,
    or to skim[e] water from the cistern.”

15 For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this:

“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
    your strength shall be in quietness and in trust.”

But[f] you were not willing,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:13 Literally “whose breaking comes”
  2. Isaiah 30:14 Literally “someone who forms”
  3. Isaiah 30:14 Hebrew “fragment”
  4. Isaiah 30:14 Literally “for the taking away of fire”
  5. Isaiah 30:14 Literally “for the skimming off of”
  6. Isaiah 30:15 Or “And”