Isaiah 30:5
World English Bible (WEB)
They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
In context
3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
Isaiah 30:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
- DBY Darby Translation
- They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- WBS Webster Bible
- They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.