![]() ![]() Next, you can use the plus sign to add more entry and exit dates if you’ve entered the area several times. If you’ve forgotten, you can double check with your passport as it will be stamped. Here is where you put down your exact entry and exit dates in the Schengen zone. The box for your entry and exit dates.Using the calculator is fairly simple- there are four main components of the tool: Visa for Cultural / Sports / Religious Event. ![]() This defeat of Assyria becomes the occasion for Israel’s festal rejoicing (v. word for king ( melek) and the name Molech. King: there seems to be a play on words between the Heb. Here, Isaiah speaks of “his tophet,” the site prepared for burning up the king of Assyria. * Tophet: a site, near Jerusalem, where children were sacrificed by fire to Molech ( 2 Kgs 23:10), and where, probably, Ahaz sacrificed his son ( 2 Kgs 16:3). The name of the L ORD: here, God himself cf. * Teacher: God, who in the past made the people blind and deaf through the prophetic message ( 6:9– 10) and who in his anger hid his face from the house of Jacob ( 8:17), shall in the future help them to understand his teaching clearly (cf. There is wordplay between the nouns and their cognate verbs, both of which mean “to see.” The authorities are depicted as forbidding prophets to contradict their secret political and military policies. * Seers…prophets: the two terms are synonyms for prophetic figures such as Isaiah ( 1:1 2:1 6:1, 5). * Isaiah will write down his condemnation of the foolish policy pursued so that the truth of his warning of its dire consequences (vv. Is 51:9 Jb 26:12 Ps 89:11) yet Egypt, when asked for aid by Judah, becomes silent and “sits still.” Ps 87:4) Egypt is compared to Rahab, the raging, destructive sea monster (cf. * Distressed…land: the wilderness between Judah and Egypt, through which Judahite messengers had to pass, carrying their tribute to Egypt to buy assistance in the struggle against Assyria. * Without asking my counsel: it was a practice to consult God through the prophets or through the priestly oracle before making a major political decision ( 1 Sm 23:1– 12 1 Kgs 22:5), but Judah’s leadership, in its concern for security, was apparently trying to keep its plan for a treaty with Egypt secret even from the prophets, thus implicitly from God ( 29:15). * Make an alliance: lit., “pour out a libation,” namely, as part of the ritual of treaty making. 6– 7 is still introduced by its own heading: Oracle on the Beasts of the Negeb. That these were originally separate oracles is indicated by the fact that the oracle in vv. * Several independent oracles against making an alliance with Egypt have been strung together in this chapter: vv. Will be accompanied by timbrels and lyres,Īnd the breath of the L ORD, like a stream of sulfur, In raging fury and flame of consuming fire,ģ1For at the voice of the L ORD, Assyria will be shattered,ģ2And every sweep of the rod of his punishment, wģ0The L ORD will make his glorious voice heard, He will winnow the nations with a destructive winnowingĪnd bridle the jaws of the peoples to send them astray. u Divine Judgment on Assyria *Ģ7See, the name of the L ORD is coming from afar, On the day the L ORD binds up the wounds of his peopleĪnd heals the bruises left by his blows. You shall throw them away like filthy rags,Ģ4The oxen and the donkeys that till the groundĢ5Upon every high mountain and lofty hillĢ6The light of the moon will be like the light of the sun,Īnd the light of the sun will be seven times greater, When you would turn to the right or the left.Ģ2You shall defile your silver-plated idols No longer will your Teacher * hide himself,īut with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher, rĢ1And your ears shall hear a word behind you: qĢ0The Lord will give you bread in adversity He will be most gracious to you when you cry out Īs soon as he hears he will answer you. o Zion’s Future Deliveranceġ8Truly, the L ORD is waiting to be gracious to you,ġ9Yes, people of Zion, dwelling in Jerusalem, You will then be left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, Very well, swift shall be your pursuers! nġ7A thousand shall tremble at the threat of one. In quiet and in trust shall be your strength. Whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant, kīy waiting and by calm you shall be saved, Speak smooth things to us, see visions that deceive! hġ1Turn aside from the way! Get out of the path!ġ2Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel:Īnd put your trust in oppression and deceit, ![]() To the prophets, * “Do not prophesy truth for us To listen to the instruction of the L ORD g They carry their riches on the backs of donkeysĪnd their treasures on the humps of camelsĨ * Now come, write it on a tablet they can keep, Through the distressed and troubled land * Who make an alliance * I did not inspire,ģPharaoh’s protection shall become your shame, CHAPTER 30 Oracle on the Futility of an Alliance with Egypt * ![]()
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