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For Egypt’s help is vain and futile;
    therefore I have called her
    “Rahab[a] the Worthless.”
    [b]And so go forth and in their presence
    write it on a scroll,
    inscribe it on a tablet,
so that it may serve hereafter
    as an eternal witness.
They are a rebellious people,
    deceitful children,
children who refuse to listen
    to the instruction of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:7 Rahab: a monster in Eastern mythologies, often used in the Bible as a symbol for Egypt.
  2. Isaiah 30:8 These verses show that Isaiah made use of writing.