Isaiah 30:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Through a land of trouble and distress,
    of lioness and roaring^[a] lion,
    of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
    and their treasures on the humps of camels,
    to a people that cannot profit them.
⁷ For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty,
    therefore I have called her,
    ‘Rahab who sits still.’^[b]

⁸ Go now, write it before them on a tablet,
    and inscribe it in a book,
so that it may be for the time to come
    as a witness for ever.