Isaiah 30:5
What does Isaiah 30:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 30:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Context
v.4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
v.5This passage
v.6The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 31:1
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!
- Jeremiah 2:36
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
- Isaiah 30:7
For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.
- Isaiah 30:16
but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
- Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
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