Bible verse
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
Isaiah 30:7 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 30.
3 But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
4 For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
5 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.”
6 This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
7 Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
10 They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
11 Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
KJV
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.
ASV
For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
ERV
For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
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