Isaiah 31
31
Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt
1Woe#31:1 Or Ah, to #ch. 30:2; 36:6 those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who #Ps. 20:7; [ch. 30:16; 36:9] trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but #[ch. 22:11]do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
2And #[Ps. 94:8-10] yet he is wise and brings disaster;
# [Num. 23:19] he does not call back his words,
but #[ch. 22:14] will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of #Ps. 94:4those who work iniquity.
3The Egyptians are man, and not God,
and their horses #Jer. 17:5are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
and they will all perish together.
4For thus the Lord said to me,
#
Hos. 11:10; Amos 1:2; 3:8 “As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
or daunted at their noise,
# [ch. 42:13] so the Lord of hosts will come down
to fight#31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike on Mount Zion and on its hill.
5 #
Deut. 32:11; [Ps. 91:4] Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
he will spare and rescue it.”
6 # [ch. 30:15] Turn to him from whom people#31:6 Hebrew they have #ch. 1:5deeply revolted, O children of Israel. 7For in that day #ch. 2:20; 30:22everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
8 # ch. 37:36 “And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be #[Gen. 49:15; Prov. 12:24]put to forced labor.
9 #
Deut. 32:31; See ch. 30:29 His rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the Lord, whose #ch. 30:33 fire is in Zion,
and whose #Ps. 21:9; Mal. 4:1furnace is in Jerusalem.
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 31
31
1Woe to those who go down to Mitsrayim for help, and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but who do not look to the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, nor seek יהוה!
2And He also is wise, and has brought evil, and has not turned aside His words. And He shall rise up against the house of evil-doers, and against the help of workers of wickedness.
3And the Mitsrites are men, and not Ěl. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And when יהוה stretches out His hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall. And they shall all fall, together.
4For this is what יהוה has said to me, “As a lion roars, and a young lion over his prey, though a band of shepherds is called out against him, he is not afraid of their voice nor disturbed by their noise, so יהוה of hosts shall come down to fight upon Mount Tsiyon and upon its hill.
5“Like hovering birds, so does יהוה of hosts protect Yerushalayim – protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.”
6Turn back to Him from whom the children of Yisra’ĕl have deeply fallen away.
7For in that day, let each man reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made for yourselves, as a sin.
8“And Ashshur shall fall by a sword not of man, and a sword not of mankind shall devour him. But he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become slave labour,
9and his strength pass away because of fear, and his commanders shall be afraid of the banner,” declares יהוה, whose light is in Tsiyon and whose furnace is in Yerushalayim.
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