Bible in Basic English
"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."
— Isaiah 30:7, Bible in Basic English
“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 helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth 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 the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.”
For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.
For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.
The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
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.
Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.
For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure: