⁵ everyone comes to shame
    through a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
    only shame and disgrace.^(A)

³⁶ Why do you go about so much
    to change your way?
You shall be put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.^(A)

⁷ For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;
    therefore I have called her,
    “Rahab who sits still.”^[a](A)

31 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
    and who rely on horses,
who trust in chariots because they are many
    and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but do not look to the Holy One of Israel
    or consult the Lord!^(A)
2 Yet he is wise and can bring disaster;
    he does not depart from his words
but will rise against the house of the evildoers
    and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.^(B)
3 The Egyptians are human and not God;
    their horses are flesh and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
    the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall,
    and they will all perish together.^(C)

¹⁶ and said,
‘No! We will flee upon horses’—
    therefore you shall flee!
and, ‘We will ride upon swift steeds’—
    therefore your pursuers shall be swift!^(A)