Isaiah 30:1–7

¹“Woe to the rebellious children,”

declares the LORD,

“to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine,

who form an alliance, but against My will,

heaping up sin upon sin.

²They set out to go down to Egypt

without asking My advice,

to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection

and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

³But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame,

and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

⁴For though their princes are at Zoan

and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

⁵everyone will be put to shame

because of a people useless to them.

They bring neither help nor benefit,

but only shame and disgrace.”

⁶This 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.

⁷Egypt’s help is futile and empty;

therefore I have called her

Rahab Who Sits Still.^a