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,