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href="../isaiah/30.htm" title="Isaiah 30">◄</a> Isaiah 31 <a href="../isaiah/32.htm" title="Isaiah 32">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/31.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Woe<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Ah,">a</a></sup></span> to those who go down to Egypt for help</span><br /><span class="indent">and rely on horses,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who trust in chariots because they are many</span><br /><span class="indent">and in horsemen because they are very strong,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but do not look to the Holy One of Israel</span><br /><span class="indent">or consult the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And yet he is wise and brings disaster;</span><br /><span class="indent">he does not call back his words,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but will arise against the house of the evildoers</span><br /><span class="indent">and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Egyptians are man, and not God,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their horses are flesh, and not spirit.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">When the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> stretches out his hand,</span><br /><span class="indent">the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they will all perish together.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For thus the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,</span><br /><span class="indent">and when a band of shepherds is called out against him</span><br /><span class="ln-group">he is not terrified by their shouting</span><br /><span class="indent">or daunted at their noise,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">so the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts will come down</span><br /><span class="indent">to fight<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike">b</a></sup></span> on Mount Zion and on its hill.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Like birds hovering, so the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts</span><br /><span class="indent">will protect Jerusalem;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">he will protect and deliver it;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will spare and rescue it.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Turn to him from whom people<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew they">c</a></sup></span> have deeply revolted, O children of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;</span><br /><span class="indent">and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and he shall flee from the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his young men shall be put to forced labor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His rock shall pass away in terror,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his officers desert the standard in panic,”</span><br /><span class="ln-group">declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, whose fire is in Zion,</span><br /><span class="indent">and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>Ah,</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> The Hebrew words for <i class="catch-word">hosts</i> and <i class="catch-word">to fight</i> sound alike<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i>they</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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