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16 Instead, you said,
    ‘No! We’ll escape on horses!’
        Therefore, you’ll flee away.
And you said,
    ‘We’ll ride off on swift steeds!’
        Therefore your pursuers will be swift.
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one;
    and run away, pursued by[a] five,
until you are left
    like a flagpole on a mountaintop,[b]
        like a banner on a hill.”

Restoration is Promised to Israel

18 “Nevertheless, the Lord will wait
    so he can be gracious to you;
        and thus he will rise up to show you mercy.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
    How blessed are all those who wait for him.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:17 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read away at the threat of
  2. Isaiah 30:17 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads the mountaintop

16 You said, ‘No, we will flee(A) on horses.’(B)
    Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
    Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
17 A thousand will flee
    at the threat of one;
at the threat of five(C)
    you will all flee(D) away,
till you are left(E)
    like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
    like a banner(F) on a hill.”

18 Yet the Lord longs(G) to be gracious to you;
    therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.(H)
For the Lord is a God of justice.(I)
    Blessed are all who wait for him!(J)

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