World English Bible
"For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still."
— Isaiah 30:7, World English 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. ”
“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 have come to Hanes.
They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits 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 forever and ever.
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.