Isaiah 31 — Legacy Standard Bible

Woe to Those Who Go down to Egypt

31Woe to those who go down to ^aEgypt for helpAnd ^brely on horses,And trust in chariots because they are manyAnd in horsemen because they are very mighty,But they do not have ^cregard for the ^dHoly One of Israel, nor seek Yahweh!²Yet He also is ^awise and will ^bbring about an evil demiseAnd does ^cnot turn His words aside,But will arise against the house of ^devildoersAnd against the help of the ^eworkers of iniquity.³Now the Egyptians are ^amen and not God,And their ^bhorses are flesh and not spirit;So Yahweh will ^cstretch out His hand,And ^dhe who helps will stumble,And he who is helped will fall,And all of them will come to an end together.

⁴For thus says Yahweh to me, “As the ^alion or the young lion growls over its prey,Against which a multitude of shepherds is called out,And it will not be dismayed at their voice nor afflicted at their noise,So will Yahweh of hosts come down to wage ^bwar on Mount Zion and on its hill.”

⁵Like ¹flying ^abirds so Yahweh of hosts will defend Jerusalem.He will ^bdefend and deliver it;He will pass over and provide a way of escape.

⁶^aReturn to Him against whom ¹you have ^bdeeply rebelled, O sons of Israel. ⁷For in that day every man will ^areject his silver idols and his gold idols, which your ^bhands have made for you as ^ca sin.

⁸And the ^aAssyrian will fall by a sword not of man,And a ^bsword not of man will devour him.So he will ¹^,^cflee from the sword,And his choice men will become ^dforced laborers.⁹“His ^arock will pass away because of terror,And his princes will be dismayed at the ^bstandard,”Declares Yahweh, whose ^cfire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.