What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 30:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
but you said, *No, for we will flee on horses;* therefore you will flee; and, *We will ride on the swift;* therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rachav who sits still.
Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Par`oh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Ashur.