Isaiah 30:6
Verse 6 of 33. The 30th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.
2who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
3Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law;
10who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
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