19 The Lord has said to you, O remnant of Judah, (A)‘Do not go to Egypt.’ (B)Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day

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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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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;
(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!
(E)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
    and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
For though his officials are at (F)Zoan
    and (G)his envoys reach (H)Hanes,
everyone comes to shame
    through (I)a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
    but shame and disgrace.”

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.
Egypt's (N)help is worthless and empty;
    therefore I have called her
    (O)“Rahab who sits still.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web

29 (A)And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet (B)they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, (C)which if a person does them, he shall live by them, (D)and they turned a stubborn shoulder (E)and stiffened their neck and would not obey. 30 Many years (F)you bore with them (G)and warned them (H)by your Spirit through your prophets. (I)Yet they would not give ear. (J)Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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26 (A)“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you (B)and cast your law behind their back (C)and killed your prophets, who (D)had warned them in order to turn them back to you, (E)and they committed great blasphemies.

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that no one transgress and (A)wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is (B)an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

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The New Life

17 Now this I say and (A)testify in the Lord, (B)that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, (C)in the futility of their minds.

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26 Therefore (A)I testify to you this day that (B)I am innocent of the blood of all, 27 for (C)I did not shrink from declaring to you (D)the whole counsel of God.

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40 And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, (A)“Save yourselves from this (B)crooked generation.”

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15 (A)But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors (B)to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. (C)Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he (D)break the covenant and yet escape?

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21 But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.”

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And (A)whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are (B)a rebellious house) (C)they will know that a prophet has been among them.

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21 But if you refuse to (A)surrender, this is the vision which the Lord has shown to me:

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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!
And (D)yet he is wise and brings disaster;
    (E)he does not call back his words,
but (F)will arise against the house of the evildoers
    and against the helpers of (G)those who work iniquity.
The Egyptians are man, and not God,
    and their horses (H)are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
    the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
    and they will all perish together.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,

19 (A)Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord. (B)These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.

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21 And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as (A)a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For (B)I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”

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