Verse 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.
Referenced Verses
- Jer 2:36 : 36 Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall 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 shall you flee: and, We will ride on the swift; therefore shall those who pursue you 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, 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.
- Isa 20:5-6 : 5 They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?