Isaiah 30:5

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Isa 30:7 : 7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
  • Isa 30:16 : 16 but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;" therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;" therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
  • Isa 31:1-3 : 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 don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
  • Isa 20:5-6 : 5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"

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  • Isa 30:6-7
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    6The 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.

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

  • Isa 20:4-5
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    4so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

    5They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

  • Isa 30:2-4
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    2who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

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

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

  • 20They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

  • 26As 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;

  • 6It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

  • 16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

  • 54that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

  • 3Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

  • 24But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Ps 44:12-14
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    12You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

    13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

    14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

  • 11Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.

  • 28For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

  • 26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

  • 15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says Yahweh.

  • 12your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

  • 15Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.

  • 6"Don't prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."

  • 1Woe 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 don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh!

  • Jer 2:36-37
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    36Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

    37From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.

  • 12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

  • 3Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

  • 11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

  • 16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

  • 3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

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

  • 9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

  • 5They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

  • 41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • 5There 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 rejected them.

  • 19They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

  • 7Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

  • 15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"

  • 40and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

  • 9The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

  • 5Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

  • 2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

  • 16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 12They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

  • 30They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

  • 26They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;

  • 2They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.