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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)

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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).

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

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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.”