Isaiah 30:2-4

The Voice

²     You look to Egypt for security and help without consulting Me.
        You seem to think that Pharaoh is the answer,
    That Egypt will protect you from harm.
³     But because you cling to the earthly power of great nations,
        you will be disappointed and ashamed
    In the very thing you grasped—Pharaoh and Egypt.
⁴     For even though Egypt’s princes and ambassadors are in the delta region,
        in Zoan and Hanes,