Isaiah 30:7
World English Bible (WEB)
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
In context
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.
8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law;
Isaiah 30:7 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Egypt’s help is futile and empty; 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.