Isaiah 30:6-8

New International Reader's Version

Judah’s messengers carry their riches on the backs of donkeys.
    They carry their treasures on the humps of camels.
    They travel through a land of danger and suffering.
It’s a land filled with lions.
    Poisonous snakes are also there.
The messengers travel to a nation
    that can’t do them any good.
⁷ They travel to Egypt, whose help is totally useless.
    That’s why I call it Rahab the Do-Nothing.

⁸ The Lord said to me, “Go now.
    Write on a tablet for the people of Judah
    what I am about to say.
Also write it on a scroll.
    In days to come
    it will be a witness that lasts forever.