Isaiah 31:1
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Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt
31 Woe[a] to (A)those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who (B)trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but (C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,
Psalm 20:7
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Jeremiah 17:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man (A)who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength,[a]
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm
Deuteronomy 17:16
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16 Only he must not acquire many (A)horses for himself or cause the people (B)to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, (C)‘You shall never return that way again.’
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Daniel 9:13
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13 (A)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, (B)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.
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Jeremiah 2:13
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13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Isaiah 36:9
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9 How then can you repulse (A)a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when (B)you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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Isaiah 30:16
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16 and you said,
“No! We will flee upon (A)horses”;
therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
Amos 5:4-8
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4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
(A)“Seek me and live;
5 but do not seek (B)Bethel,
and do not enter into (C)Gilgal
or cross over to (D)Beersheba;
for (E)Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
and (F)Bethel shall come to nothing.”
6 (G)Seek the Lord and live,
(H)lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, with none to quench it for (I)Bethel,
7 O (J)you who turn justice to wormwood[a]
and cast down righteousness to the earth!
8 He who made the (K)Pleiades and Orion,
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and (L)darkens the day into night,
who (M)calls for the waters of the sea
(N)and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
(O)the Lord is his name;
Footnotes
- Amos 5:7 Or to bitter fruit
Isaiah 30:1-7
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Do Not Go Down to Egypt
30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
2 (D)who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (E)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4 For though his officials are at (F)Zoan
and (G)his envoys reach (H)Hanes,
5 everyone comes to shame
through (I)a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
but shame and disgrace.”
6 An (J)oracle on (K)the beasts of (L)the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the (M)flying fiery 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.
7 Egypt's (N)help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her
(O)“Rahab who sits still.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web
Psalm 33:16-17
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16 (A)The king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17 (B)The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
and by its great might it cannot rescue.
Isaiah 36:6
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6 (A)Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
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Hosea 14:3
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3 (A)Assyria shall not save us;
(B)we will not ride on horses;
and (C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”
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