Isaiah 30

¹“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

²They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

³But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

⁴For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

⁵everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”

⁶This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

⁷Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

⁸Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

⁹These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.

¹⁰They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

¹¹Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,