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Isaiah 30:7

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

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Isaiah 30:7 in other translations

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

Isaiah 30:7 · World English Bible

Isaiah 30:7 in context

  1. 5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
  2. 6The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
  3. 7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
  4. 8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
  5. 9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;