30 “Woe to the obstinate children,”
    declares the Lord,
“to those who carry out plans that are not mine,
    forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit,
    heaping sin upon sin;
² who go down to Egypt
    without consulting me;
who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection,
    to Egypt’s shade for refuge.
³ But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame,
    Egypt’s shade will bring you disgrace.
⁴ Though they have officials in Zoan
    and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
⁵ everyone will be put to shame
    because of a people useless to them,
who bring neither help nor advantage,
    but only shame and disgrace.”