NET Bible
"Egypt is totally incapable of helping. For this reason I call her‘Proud one who is silenced.’”"
— Isaiah 30:7, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,
all will be put to shame because of a nation that cannot help them, who cannot give them aid or help, but only shame and disgrace.”
This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.
Egypt is totally incapable of helping. For this reason I call her‘Proud one who is silenced.’”
Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.
For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.
They say to the visionaries,“See no more visions!” and to the seers,“Don’t relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things; relate deceptive messages.