What will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,
Isaiah 30:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, only shame and disgrace. More versionsKing 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, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,
and said, “No! We will flee upon horses”— therefore you shall flee! and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”— therefore your pursuers shall be swift!
For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her, “Rahab who sits still.”
See, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
Why do you go about so much to change your way? You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.