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Oracle regarding the Negev

An oracle of the animals of the Negev:

Through a land of trouble and distress,
    of lioness and lion,
    among[a] them are snake and flying serpent;
they carry their wealth on the backs[b] of male donkeys
    and their treasures on the humps[c] of camels,
    to a people that cannot profit them.
For[d] Egyptians[e] help with vanity and emptiness,
    therefore I have called this one “Rahab, they are sitting.”
Now go, write it on a tablet with them,
    and inscribe it on a scroll,
that[f] it may be for the time to come,[g]
    forever, forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:6 Literally “from”
  2. Isaiah 30:6 Literally “shoulder”
  3. Isaiah 30:6 Hebrew “hump”
  4. Isaiah 30:7 Or “And”
  5. Isaiah 30:7 Literally “Egypt”
  6. Isaiah 30:8 Or “and”
  7. Isaiah 30:8 Literally “for last day”