Isaiah 31
31
The Lord, the Only Help
1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help # Is 30:2,7; 36:6
and who depend on horses!
They trust in the abundance of chariots
and in the large number of horsemen. # Dt 17:16; Ps 20:7; 33:17; Is 2:7; 30:16; 36:9
They do not look # Is 9:13; 17:7-8; Dn 9:13; Am 5:4-8 to the Holy One of Israel
and they do not seek the Lord’s help.
2But He also is wise and brings disaster. # Is 45:7
He does not go back on what He says; # Nm 23:19; Is 22:14; Jr 44:29
He will rise up against the house of wicked men
and against the allies of evildoers.
3Egyptians are men, not God;
their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord raises His hand to strike,
the helper will stumble
and the one who is helped will fall;
both will perish together.
4For this is what the Lord said to me:
As a lion or young lion growls over its prey # Nm 24:9; Hs 11:10; Am 3:8
when a band of shepherds is called out against it,
and is not terrified by their shouting
or subdued by their noise,
so the Lord of Hosts will come down
to fight on Mount Zion
and on its hill. # Is 42:13; Zch 12:8
5Like hovering birds,
so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem # Dt 32:11; Ps 91:4 —
by protecting it, He will rescue it,
by sparing it, He will deliver it.
6Return to the One the Israelites have greatly rebelled against. # Is 1:5; 59:13 7For on that day, every one of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your own hands have sinfully made. # Is 2:20; 30:22
8Then Assyria will fall,
but not by human sword;
a sword will devour him,
but not one made by man. # Is 37:7,36-38
He will flee from the sword;
his young men will be put to forced labor. # Gn 49:15; Is 14:2
9His rock # Perhaps the Assyrian king will pass away because of fear, # Dt 32:31,37
and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. # Is 5:26; 13:2; Jr 4:6,21; 51:12,27
This is the Lord’s declaration — whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem. # Lv 10:2; Is 10:17; 30:33
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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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