King James Version (KJV)
Isaiah 30:7
“For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 30
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.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:
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