2. That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my counsel; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3. Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.
4. For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5. They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor a profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6. The burden concerning the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7. For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her, Rahab who sits still.
8. Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, forever and ever:
9. That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10. Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11. Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.