⁴ For though their princes are at Zoan
and their ambassadors reach Hanes,
⁵ they will all be ashamed of a people
    who cannot profit them.
They are neither help nor profit,
    but shame and disgrace.”

Through a land of trouble and anguish,
    in which are lioness and lion,
        viper and flying serpent,
    they are carrying their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
    their treasures on camel humps,
    to a people who cannot profit them.