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28 His breath is like an overflowing torrent,
    and it rises right up to the neck,
to shake[a] the nations in the sieve of destruction,
    and to place in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.

29 You will have songs as on nights when people celebrate a holy festival,[b] and gladness of heart, as when they set out with flutes to go to the Lord’s mountain, to the Rock of Israel.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

30 And the Lord will make heard—yes, he will make heard[c]—his majestic voice, and make his arm[d] seen descending in raging anger and in a flame of consuming fire, with a cloudburst, thunderstorm and hailstones.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:28 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to sift; LXX reads to confuse
  2. Isaiah 30:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one celebrates a holy festival
  3. Isaiah 30:30 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read heard only once
  4. Isaiah 30:30 I.e. the Messiah