Isaiah 30:7
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
In context
5 everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”
6 This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
7 Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Isaiah 30:7 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
- KJV King James Version
- For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
- WEB World English Bible
- For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Yea, Egyptians [are] vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: 'Their strength [is] to sit still.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For the Egyptian shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.