What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 30:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised everyone will be ashamed because of a people who can’t help. They are of no benefit, they are no help; they are good for nothing but shame and disgrace. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet will all be ashamed because of a people [the Egyptians] who cannot profit them, who are not a help or benefit, but a shame and disgrace. American Standard Version (1901) They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. Common English Bible all will become shamed because of a people who can’t assist them. They are no help; they are no profit; rather, shame and disgrace. Catholic Public Domain Version They have all been confounded because of a people who were not able to offer profit to them, who were not of assistance, nor of other usefulness, except to offer confusion and reproach. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach. |
What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
You say, ‘No! We will escape on horses’ – therefore you will escape! – and, ‘We will ride on fast horses’ – but those who pursue you will be faster.
Egypt’s help is completely worthless; therefore, I call her: Rahab Who Just Sits.
Look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who grabs it and leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.
How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt just as you were put to shame by Assyria.