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30Oh, rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan, but not mine; who make an alliance, but against my will, adding sin to sin; ²who set out to go down to Egypt without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt; ³Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation. ⁴For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes, ⁵everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace. ⁶An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and roaring lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them. ⁷For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her, “Rahab who sits still.”

⁸Go now, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. ⁹For they are a rebellious people, faithless children, children who will not hear the instruction of the Lord; ¹⁰who say to the seers, “Do not see”; and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,