3. Pharaoh’s refuge will become your shame,hiding in Egypt’s shadow your disgrace.
4. Though their officials are in Zoan,and their messengers reach Hanes,
5. all will become shamed because of a people who can’t assist them.They are no help; they are no profit;rather, shame and disgrace.
6. An oracle about the beasts in the arid southern plain.Through a land of distress and danger,lioness and roaring lion, viper and flying serpent,they will carry their wealth on donkeys’ shouldersand their treasures on camels’ humps to a people who won’t profit,
7. for Egypt’s help is utterly worthless.Therefore, I call her Rahab Who Sits Still.
8. Now go, write it before them on a tablet,inscribe it on a scroll,so in the future it will endure as a witness.
9. These are rebellious people, lying children,children unwilling to hear the Lord’s teaching,
10. who say to the seers, "Don’t foresee,"and to the visionaries, "Don’t report truthful visions;tell us flattering things;envision deceptions;
11. get out of the way;step off the path;let’s have no more ‘holy one of Israel.’"
12. Therefore, the holy one of Israel says:Because you reject this wordand trust in oppression and cunning and rely on them,
13. your sin will be like a crack in a high wall; it bulges, about to fall:suddenly, in an instant, it breaks!
14. Its breaking is like the breaking of a storage jarthat is totally shattered.No piece from among its fragments will be large enough to take fire from a hearth,or to dip water from a cistern.