So the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled (A)for help to be saved from the king of Assyria; and (B)how are we ourselves to escape?’”

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In that day(A) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(B) to those we relied on,(C) those we fled to for help(D) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(E)’”

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And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

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Everyone will be (A)ashamed because of a people who do not benefit them,
Who are (B)not a help or benefit, but a source of shame and also disgrace.”

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everyone will be put to shame
    because of a people(A) useless(B) to them,
who bring neither help(C) nor advantage,
    but only shame and disgrace.(D)

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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.

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Even Egypt, whose (A)help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have called [a]her
[b](B)Rahab who has been exterminated.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:7 Lit this one
  2. Isaiah 30:7 MT They are Rahab or arrogance, to remain; i.e., Egypt, as a sea monster; see note Job 26:12

    to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.(A)
Therefore I call her
    Rahab(B) the Do-Nothing.

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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

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Now the Egyptians are (A)human and not God,
And their (B)horses are flesh and not spirit;
So the Lord will (C)stretch out His hand,
And any (D)helper will stumble,
And one who is helped will fall.
And all of them will come to an end together.

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But the Egyptians(A) are mere mortals and not God;(B)
    their horses(C) are flesh and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,(D)
    those who help will stumble,
    those who are helped(E) will fall;
    all will perish together.(F)

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Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

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