Isaiah 30:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 14:13 : 13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
  • Ps 76:8-9 : 8 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent, 9 When God arose to judgment, To save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.
  • Ps 118:8-9 : 8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in princes.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
  • Isa 7:4 : 4 Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
  • Isa 28:12 : 12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:
  • Isa 31:1-5 : 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, neither seek Yahweh! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, 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: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together. 4 For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it. 5 As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it].
  • Isa 51:9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
  • Jer 37:7 : 7 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
  • Lam 3:26 : 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, And sent to king Jareb: But he is not able to heal you, Neither will he cure you of your wound.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 31:3
    79%

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

  • Isa 30:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

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

  • Isa 30:5-6
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    75%

    5They 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.

    6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come 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 a people that shall not profit [them].

  • Isa 31:1
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    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, neither seek Yahweh!

  • Ezek 29:6-7
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    74%

    6All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

    7When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and did tear all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and mad all their loins to be at a stand.

  • Isa 30:8
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    8Now 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.

  • Jer 46:17
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    17They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

  • Ezek 29:9-10
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    9The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it;

    10therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.

  • Jer 37:7
    73%

    7Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

  • Ezek 30:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

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

  • Ezek 30:6-8
    3 verses
    73%

    6Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.

    7They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

    8They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

  • Nah 3:9
    72%

    9Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

  • Ezek 30:4
    72%

    4A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

  • Jer 46:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

    20Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

    21Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

  • Hos 7:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, Yet they plot evil against me.

    16They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 46:8
    72%

    8Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it.

  • Isa 19:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the corner-stone of her tribes.

    14Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

    15Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

  • Isa 19:1-5
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    72%

    1The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

    2I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.

    3The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

    4I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

    5The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

  • Isa 36:6
    71%

    6Behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

  • Ezek 30:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

    19Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Ezek 30:16
    71%

    16I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the day-time.

  • Ezek 30:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

    25I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 46:12
    70%

    12The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

  • 2 Kgs 18:21
    70%

    21Now, behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

  • Isa 19:20
    70%

    20It shall be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he will deliver them.

  • Ezek 29:14
    70%

    14and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

  • Ezek 30:22
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    22Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

  • Isa 19:10
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    10The pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.

  • Exod 7:5
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    5The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

  • Ezek 17:17
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    17Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

  • Ezek 29:3
    70%

    3speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.

  • Exod 7:24
    70%

    24All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.