American Standard Version
"For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still. "
— Isaiah 30:7, American Standard Version
“For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.”
“For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.”
“Egypt is totally incapable of helping. For this reason I call her‘Proud one who is silenced.’””
“For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.”
“For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.”
“For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.”
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
They 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.
The 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.
For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
Now 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.
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits,