Isaiah 20:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their boast.

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  • Isa 30:3 : 3 Therefore, the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
  • Isa 30:5 : 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
  • Jer 9:23-24 : 23 Thus says the LORD, 'Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.'
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
  • Ezek 29:6-7 : 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a stand.
  • 1 Cor 3:21 : 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours;
  • 2 Kgs 18:21 : 21 Now behold, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans, will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for how much is he to be accounted of?
  • Isa 30:7 : 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
  • Isa 36:6 : 6 Indeed, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on, it will pierce his hand. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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  • Isa 20:3-4
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    3 And the LORD said, Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

    4 So will the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners, and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

  • 6 And the inhabitant of this coastland shall say in that day, Behold, such is our hope, where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?

  • Isa 30:2-3
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    2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

    3 Therefore, the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

  • 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came there and were ashamed.

  • Ezek 30:4-6
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    4 And the sword will come upon Egypt, and great pain will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, and they take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down.

    5 Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the land that is in alliance, will fall with them by the sword.

    6 Thus says the LORD; Those who uphold Egypt will fall; and the pride of her power will come down: from the tower of Syene they will fall by the sword, says the Lord GOD.

  • 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

  • 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

  • 9 In that day messengers will go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain will come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, behold, it comes.

  • 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

  • Hos 10:5-6
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    5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests who rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

    6 It shall also be carried to Assyria as a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • 35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

  • 1 Woe to the land with wings of shadow, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

  • 12 You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword.

  • 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together, those who are makers of idols.

  • 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron, for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

  • 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers.

  • Isa 19:16-17
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    16 In that day Egypt shall be like women, and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shakes over it.

    17 The land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt; everyone who mentions it shall be afraid in themselves because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which He has determined against it.

  • 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

  • 5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was; for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you; you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.

  • 54 That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them.

  • 5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so they shall be greatly pained at the report of Tyre.

  • 23 In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

  • 10 Behold, therefore I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even to the border of Ethiopia.

  • 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

  • 15 Then the chiefs of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

  • 38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

  • 12 Your mother shall be greatly ashamed; she that bore you shall be confounded: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

  • 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

  • 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

  • 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

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

  • 12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they have both fallen together.

  • 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a lowly kingdom.

  • Jer 46:19-20
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    19 O daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

    20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.

  • 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

  • 14 Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours: they shall follow you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall bow down to you, they shall make supplication to you, saying, Surely God is with you; and there is no other, there is no God.

  • 26 After they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and no one made them afraid.

  • 11 In that day you shall not be ashamed for all your deeds, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you those that rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

  • 5 He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

  • 11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and strike the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up. And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.

  • 24 For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought to destroy the land: they will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

  • 21 Now behold, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans, will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.