Isaiah 30:4

What does Isaiah 30:4 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 30:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

Context

v.3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

v.4This passage

v.5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 7:16

    They return, but not to him that is on high; they are like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • Isaiah 19:11

    The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

  • Numbers 13:22

    And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Hosea 7:11

    And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.

  • Jeremiah 43:7

    And they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah: and they came unto Tahpanhes.

  • 2 Kings 17:4

    And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

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