World English Bible
Isaiah 30:7
“For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 30
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.
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
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