Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
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Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
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Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion.
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Isaiah 30:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 20:5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
- Jeremiah 17:5-6 Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
- Romans 10:11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Romans 5:5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Isaiah 30:5-7 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.” The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people. For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
- Isaiah 36:6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
- Isaiah 45:16-17 They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together. Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
- Jeremiah 37:5-10 Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke up from Jerusalem. Then Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land. The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.” ’ “Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart. For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’ ”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be…
Isa 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion.
Ver. 3. Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame.] They that consult not with God "consult shame to their own houses"; {Heb 2:10} and because they despise him, they shall be lightly esteemed. {1Sa 2:30} When any came to Bacon and Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth’s gravest counsellors, with a project or design of raising her revenue, or promoting her interest, they would ask him how much reputation would redound unto her by it. Moses, who was faithful in all God’s house, had the like care of God’s glory, {Exo 32:10; Exo 32:12} and is therefore renowned to all posterity. But these apostates in the text, for carnal policy and contempt of God, are justly branded and threatened with disgrace and disappointment.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As being not only unprofitable, but mischievous to you.
As being not only unprofitable, but mischievous to you.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,....…
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,.... They should be disappointed of the help and assistance they expected from him, and so be ashamed of their ally, and of confidence in him:
and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion; they should be confounded, when they should find themselves unsupported by the Egyptians, in whom they put their confidence; so all such that trust in the creature, or in an arm of flesh, sooner or later are ashamed and confounded; but those that trust in the Lord never are, neither in this world, nor in that to come.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame…
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame - (see the note at Isa 20:5).
Your confusion - Hebrew, ‘For reproach.’ It would either occur that the Egyptians “would” not enter into an alliance; or that if they did, they “could” not defend them, and in either case it would be the source of deep regret and shame.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Shame. Egypt had been defeated before Sennacherib’s approach.
Shame. Egypt had been defeated before Sennacherib’s approach.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain shame--disappointment. Egypt, weakened by its internal dissensions, can give…
shame--disappointment. Egypt, weakened by its internal dissensions, can give no solid help.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. strength … trust] refuge … hiding; as Isa_30:2.
3. strength … trust] refuge … hiding; as Isa_30:2.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Now the Egyptians are men, and not God. Judah…
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God. Judah relied on Pharaoh, as on a sort of God, which indeed he was considered in his own country ("Records of the Past," vol. 6. p. 145, I 320; p. 148, 1.418, etc.). Isaiah asserts the contrary in the strongest way: the Egyptians, one and all, are men mere men; and "there is no help in them". (Psa_146:3) Their horses flesh, and not spirit. The horses, on which so much reliance was placed, were mere animals, subject to all the weakness of the animal nature, not spirit-horses, with a life and vigor of their own, by which they could be a real tower of strength to those on whose side they ranged themselves. They all shall fail together ; i.e. the helpers and the helped (compare the concluding clauses of ver. 2).
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain trust (See Scofield "Psa 2:12").
trust (See Scofield "Psa 2:12").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Yahweh continues speaking to the people of Judah.
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Therefore Pharaoh's protection will be your shame, and the refuge in Egypt's shade, your humiliation
This can be reworded so that the abstract nouns "protection," "shame," and "humiliation" are expressed as adjectives or verbs. AT: "Therefore you will be ashamed because you relied on Pharaoh to protect you; you will be humiliated because you relied on the Egyptians to keep you safe" (See: Abstract Nouns)
the refuge in Egypt's shade
Egypt's protection from enemy armies is spoken of as if it were a shadow that protects someone from the burning heat of the sun. (See: Metaphor)
their princes
Here "princes" mean an official or ambassador, not necessarily sons of the king.
their ... They ... them
These words refer to the people of Judah.
Zoan ... Hanes
These were cities in the northern part of Egypt. (See: How to Translate Names)
have come to Hanes
Here "come" can be stated as "gone." (See: Go and Come)
because of a people
"because of the people of Egypt"
translationWords
Pharaoh
shame
refuge
Egypt
prince
messenger
people group
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