Isaiah Chapter 31 Back Next{31:1} Woe to those who 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 don't look to the Holy One of
Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh!
{31:2} Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
{31:3} Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses
flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
{31:4} For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the
lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
{31:5} As
birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect
Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it."
{31:6} Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
{31:7} For in that day everyone shall cast away his
idols of silver and his idols of
gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.
{31:8} "The
Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
{31:9} His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the
banner," says Yahweh, whose
fire is in Zion, and his
furnace in Jerusalem.
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