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Egypt Is No Help; The Lord Will Save Jerusalem

Isaiah 31:1-9

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Chapter 31
1 Alas for those who go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses and chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very mighty! But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD. 2 And he is also wise and brings evil, and he does not turn aside his words, and he rises against the house of evildoers and against the help of workers of iniquity. 3 Egypt is man and not God, and their horses are flesh and not wind. And the LORD stretches out his hand, and the Helper stumbles and the Help falls, and together all of them will be consumed. 4 For this is what the LORD said to me: As a lion growls, even a young lion, over its torn prey which one calls over it—a full company of ravenous beasts—from their voice it will not be terrified, and from their multitude it will not answer. In this way the LORD of hosts will descend to the host over Mount Zion and over its hill. 5 Like birds flying about, so the LORD of hosts will defend Jerusalem—defending and delivering, passing over and sparing. 6 Return to the one whom the sons of Israel have deepened to rebel. 7 For on that day they will reject—man the worthless idols of his silver and the worthless idols of his gold, which your hands made for you—a sin offering. 8 And Assyria will fall by a sword—not of man, and a sword—not of Adam—will devour him, and he will flee from before the sword, and his young men will be for tribute. 9 His rock will pass from a place of terror, and his fear from a signal—his princes, utterance of the LORD, whose light is to him in Zion and furnace to him in Jerusalem.