Isaiah 30:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.”
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“Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Yea, Egyptians <FI>are<Fi> vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: `Their strength <FI>is<Fi> to sit still.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 30:7 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:13But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.
- Psalms 76:8From heaven You pronounced judgment, and the earth feared and was still
- Psalms 118:8It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
- Proverbs 25:19Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
- Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Isaiah 7:4and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
- Isaiah 28:12to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
- Isaiah 30:15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”
- Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
- Isaiah 31:2Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
- Isaiah 31:3But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
- Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Jeremiah 37:7“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.
- Lamentations 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
- Hosea 5:13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
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