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


In Context

4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

5 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.|

6 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.

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

8 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.

9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:7For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.

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 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.