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The [a]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 [b]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 [c]for ever and ever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:6 Or, oracle concerning
  2. Isaiah 30:7 Or, cried concerning this, They are but arrogancy: be still
  3. Isaiah 30:8 Or, as otherwise read, for a witness for ever