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Now write this on a sign so that all people can see it, and write this in a book. Write these things for a future time. This will be far, far in the future:[a]

These people are like children who refuse to obey. They lie and refuse to listen to the Lord’s teachings. 10 They tell the prophets, “Don’t see dreams[b] about things we should do. Don’t tell us the truth. Say nice things to us and make us feel good. See only good things for us.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:8 Write … future Or “Write this for the future as a witness forever.”
  2. Isaiah 30:10 dreams Or “visions.” Special kinds of dreams God used to speak to his prophets.

Go now, write it on a tablet(A) for them,
    inscribe it on a scroll,(B)
that for the days to come
    it may be an everlasting witness.(C)
For these are rebellious(D) people, deceitful(E) children,
    children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.(F)
10 They say to the seers,(G)
    “See no more visions(H)!”
and to the prophets,
    “Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,(I)
    prophesy illusions.(J)

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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

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