1. “Woe to the stubborn children,” declares יהוה, “to make counsel, but not from Me, and to devise plans, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;
2. who are setting out to go down to Mitsrayim, and have not asked My mouth, to be strengthened in the strength of Pharaoh, and to seek refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim!
3. “And the strength of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim your confusion.
4. “For his princes were at Tso‛an, and his messengers came to Ḥanes.
5. “They were all ashamed of a people who do not profit them, not for help or profit, but a shame and also a reproach.”
6. The message concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress, from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,