Warning against Alliance with Egypt

30 “Oh rebellious children!” ⌊declares⌋a Yahweh,

“to make a plan, butb not from me,

and pour out a libation, butc not from my Spirit,

⌊so as to add⌋d sin to sin.

2 Who go to go down to Egypt,

bute they do not ask of my mouth,

to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh

and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.

3 And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you,

and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation.

4 For his officials are at Zoan,

and his envoys reach to Hanes.

5 Everyone will start to stink because of a people that cannot profit them,

not for help and not for profiting,

but for shame and also for disgrace.”

Oracle regarding the Negev

6 An oracle of the animals of the Negev:

Through a land of trouble and distress,

of lioness and lion,

⌊among⌋f them are snake and flying serpent;

they carry their wealth on the ⌊backs⌋g of male donkeys

and their treasures on the humpsh of camels,

to a people that cannot profit them.

7 Fori ⌊Egyptians⌋j help with vanity and emptiness,

therefore I have called this one “Rahab, they are sitting.”