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Isaiah 30:6-8
New Catholic Bible
Isaiah 30:6-8
New Catholic Bible
6 An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb:
Through a land of hardship and distress,
of the lioness and the roaring lion,
of the viper and the flying serpent,
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels
to a nation that cannot be of help to them.
7 For Egypt’s help is vain and futile;
therefore I have called her
“Rahab[a] the Worthless.”
8 [b]And so go forth and in their presence
write it on a scroll,
inscribe it on a tablet,
so that it may serve hereafter
as an eternal witness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:7 Rahab: a monster in Eastern mythologies, often used in the Bible as a symbol for Egypt.
- Isaiah 30:8 These verses show that Isaiah made use of writing.