7For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.


In Context

4 For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.

5 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.

6 The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.

7 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.

8 Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.

9 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.

Isaiah 30:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:7For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

30:7to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do- Nothing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:7For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:7For the Egyptian shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:7Yea, Egyptians are vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: 'Their strength is to sit still.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:7For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.