King James Version (KJV)
Isaiah 30:5
“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.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 30
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
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.
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them].
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.
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