Isaiah 30:7

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 30:7

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Berean Standard Bible

Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

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KJV

King James Version

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.

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WEB

World English Bible

For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

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ASV

American Standard Version

For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Isaiah 30

⁵ everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”

⁶ This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

⁷ Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

⁸ Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

⁹ These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.

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