Isaiah 30

¹Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

²Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

³And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

⁴For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.

⁵For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

⁶The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.

⁷For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

⁸Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

⁹For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

¹⁰Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

¹¹Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.