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16 and you said,

“No! For we will flee on horses!”[a] Therefore you shall flee!
    And, “We will ride on swift horses!”[b] Therefore your pursuers shall be swift!
17 One thousand because of[c] a threat of one,
    because[d] of a threat of five you shall flee,
until you are left like a flagstaff on top[e] of a mountain,
    and like a signal on a hill.

Yahweh Will Show Mercy

18 Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you,
    and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy,
for Yahweh is a God of justice;
    blessed are all those who wait for him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:16 Hebrew “horse”
  2. Isaiah 30:16 Hebrew “horse”
  3. Isaiah 30:17 Literally “from the face of”
  4. Isaiah 30:17 Literally “from the face”
  5. Isaiah 30:17 Literally “head”