May 21, 2026, Isaiah 30:18-33
May 21, 2026, Isaiah 30:18-33
18 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore
he exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of
justice;
blessed are all those who
wait for him.
19 For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you
shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry.
As soon as he hears it, he answers you. 20 And
though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of
affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes
shall see your Teacher. 21 And your ears shall hear
a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to
the right or when you turn to the left. 22 Then you
will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal
images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be
gone!”
23 And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow
the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and
plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, 24 and the
oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has
been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 And on
every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with
water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover,
the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun
will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness
of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
27 Behold, the name of
the Lord comes from
afar,
burning with his anger,
and in thick rising smoke;
his lips are full of fury,
and his tongue is like a
devouring fire;
28 his breath is like an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the
neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws
of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is
kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the
flute to go to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice
to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious
anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and
hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be
terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when
he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the
appointed staff that the Lord lays
on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with
brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For a
burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made
ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in
abundance; the breath of the Lord,
like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Did you notice that
Assyria was the world’s superpower, God promised that He could utterly destroy
it? Does that bring you comfort? How? Have you thanked God today for His
complete control?
Debbie Walker
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