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Isaiah 30:7
New English Translation
Isaiah 30:7
New English Translation
7 Egypt is totally incapable of helping.[a]
For this reason I call her
“Proud one[b] who is silenced.”[c]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:7 tn Heb “As for Egypt, with vanity and emptiness they help.”
- Isaiah 30:7 tn Heb “Rahab” (רַהַב, rahav), which also appears as a name for Egypt in Ps 87:4. The epithet is also used in the OT for a mythical sea monster symbolic of chaos. See the note at 51:9. A number of English versions use the name “Rahab” (e.g., ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) while others attempt some sort of translation (cf. CEV “a helpless monster”; TEV, NLT “the Harmless Dragon”).
- Isaiah 30:7 tn The MT reads “Rahab, they, sitting.” The translation above assumes an emendation of הֵם שָׁבֶת (hem shavet) to הַמָּשְׁבָּת (hammashbat), a Hophal participle with prefixed definite article, meaning “the one who is made to cease,” i.e., “destroyed,” or “silenced.” See HALOT 444-45 s.v. ישׁב.
Isaiah 30:7
New International Version
Isaiah 30:7
New International Version
Isaiah 30:7
New King James Version
Isaiah 30:7
New King James Version
7 (A)For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.
Therefore I have called her
[a]Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:7 Lit. Rahab Sits Idle
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