Isaiah 30:1-7

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

1 Ah, astubborn children,” declares the Lord,
b“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make can alliance,
Hebrew  who weave a web
but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
2 ewho set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 fTherefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4For though his officials are at gZoan
and hhis envoys reach iHanes,
5everyone comes to shame
through ja people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
but shame and disgrace.”
6An koracle on lthe beasts of mthe Negeb.

Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the nflying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
7Egypt’s ohelp is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her
pRahab who sits still.”

Isaiah 36:6

6 qBehold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 57:9

9You journeyed to the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
ryou sent your envoys far off,
and sent down even to Sheol.

Ezekiel 17:15

15 sBut he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors tto Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. uWill he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he vbreak the covenant and yet escape?

Hosea 11:5

5 wThey shall not
Or surely
return to the land of Egypt,
but yAssyria shall be their king,
zbecause aathey have refused to return to me.
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