Add parallel Print Page Options

They go down to Egypt,
    without asking my counsel,[a]
To seek strength in Pharaoh’s protection
    and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.(A)
Pharaoh’s protection shall become your shame,
    refuge in Egypt’s shadow your disgrace.(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 30:2 Without asking my counsel: it was a practice to consult God through the prophets or through the priestly oracle before making a major political decision (1 Sm 23:1–12; 1 Kgs 22:5), but Judah’s leadership, in its concern for security, was apparently trying to keep its plan for a treaty with Egypt secret even from the prophets, thus implicitly from God (29:15).

who go down to Egypt(A)
    without consulting(B) me;
who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection,(C)
    to Egypt’s shade for refuge.(D)
But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame,
    Egypt’s shade(E) will bring you disgrace.(F)

Read full chapter

    to Egypt whose help is futile and vain.
Therefore I call her
    “Rahab[a] Sit-still.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 30:7 Here as elsewhere (cf. Ps 87:4) Egypt is compared to Rahab, the raging, destructive sea monster (cf. Is 51:9; Jb 26:12; Ps 89:11); yet Egypt, when asked for aid by Judah, becomes silent and “sits still.”

    to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.(A)
Therefore I call her
    Rahab(B) the Do-Nothing.

Read full chapter