everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace.”
What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
You said, ‘No, we will flee on horses.’ Therefore you will flee! You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’ Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.
Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.
Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.