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Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame,
    and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.(A)

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And they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.(A)

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Thus says the Lord:
Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals
    and make mere flesh their strength,
    whose hearts turn away from the Lord.(A)
They shall be like a shrub in the desert
    and shall not see when relief comes.
They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in an uninhabited salt land.(B)

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11 The scripture says, “No one who believes[a] in him will be put to shame.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 10.11 Or trusts

and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.(A)

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Meanwhile, the army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.(A)

Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah: Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: This is what you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Pharaoh’s army, which set out to help you, is going to return to its own land, to Egypt.(B) And the Chaldeans shall return and fight against this city; they shall take it and burn it with fire.(C) Thus says the Lord: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.(D) 10 Even if you defeated the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you and there remained of them only wounded men in their tents, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.(E)

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16 All of them are put to shame and confounded;
    the makers of idols go in disgrace together.(A)
17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
    with everlasting salvation;
you shall not be put to shame or confounded
    ever again.(B)

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See, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.(A)

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everyone comes to shame
    through a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
    only shame and disgrace.(A)

An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb.

Through a land of trouble and distress,
    of lioness and roaring[a] lion,
    of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys
    and their treasures on the humps of camels
    to a people that cannot profit them.(B)
For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;
    therefore I have called her,
    “Rahab who sits still.”[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 30.6 Cn: Heb from them
  2. 30.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain