2. That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shade of Egypt!
3. Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shade of Egypt your confusion.
4. For his princes were at Zoan, and his embassadors came to Hanes.
5. They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6. The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7. For the Egyptian shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.