The Worthless Treaty with Egypt
Isaiah 30:5
In 11 translations
- BSB
- everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”
- KJV
- They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- WEB
- They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
- ASV
- They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- LSV
- He made all ashamed of a people that do not profit, || Not for help, and not for profit, || But for shame, and also for reproach!
- YLT
- All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
- DBY
- They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- DRC
- They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach.
- GNV
- They shalbe all ashamed of the people that cannot profite them, nor helpe nor doe them good, but shalbe a shame and also a reproche.
- JPS
- They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- LXXE
- In vain shall they labour in seeking to a people, which shall not profit them for help, but shall be for a shame and reproach.
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- Written (Ketiv): הִבְאִישׁ (“he will be odious”). Read aloud (Qere): הֹבִ֔ישׁ (“he will be ashamed”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads הֹבִ֔אִישׁ; read aloud (Qere) reads הֹבִ֔ישׁ (“he will be ashamed”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- כֹּ֣ל הבאיש עַל־עַ֖ם לֹא־יוֹעִ֣ילוּ לָ֑מוֹ לֹ֤א לְעֵ֨זֶר֙ וְלֹ֣א לְהוֹעִ֔יל כִּ֥י לְבֹ֖שֶׁת וְגַם־לְחֶרְפָּֽה׃Read aloud as (qere): הֹבִ֔ישׁ
- LXX-Br
- Μάτην κοπιάσουσι πρὸς λαὸν, ὃς οὐκ ὠφελήσει αὐτοὺς εἰς βοήθειαν, ἀλλὰ εἰς αἰσχύνην καὶ ὄνειδος. Ἡ ὍΡΑΣΙΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΕΤΡΑΠΟΔΩΝ ΤΩΝ ἘΝ ΤΗ ἘΡΗΜΩ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
- Isaiah 30:7Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
- Isaiah 20:5–6Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed. And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help…
- Isaiah 31:1–3Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. Yet He…
- Isaiah 30:16“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
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