Isaiah 30:7 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁷ For Egypt's help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For Egypt's help is worthless and toward no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.

Common English Bible

⁷ for Egypt’s help is utterly worthless. Therefore, I call her Rahab Who Sits Still.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For Egypt will offer assistance, but without purpose or success. Therefore, concerning this, I cried out: "It is only arrogance! Remain calm."

Isaiah 30:7 Cross References

Job 9:13

“God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

Psalm 87:4

Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia— “This one was born there,” they say.

Psalm 89:10

Thou didst crush Rahab like a carcass, thou didst scatter thy enemies with thy mighty arm.

Exodus 14:13

And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

Proverbs 25:19

Trust in a faithless man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the storm which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 2:22

Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 28:12

to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” And you would not,

Isaiah 30:5

every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.”

Isaiah 36:9

How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the dragon?

Isaiah 7:4

and say to him, ‘Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.

Jeremiah 37:7

“Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, ‘Behold, Pharaoh's army which came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.