⁷ For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty,
    therefore I have called her,
    “Rahab who sits still.”^[a]

⁸ Go now, write it before them on a tablet,
    and inscribe it in a book,
so that it may be for the time to come
    as a witness forever.
⁹ For they are a rebellious people,
    faithless children,
children who will not hear
    the instruction of the Lord;