Through a land of trouble and anguish,
    in which are lioness and lion,
        viper and flying serpent,
    they are carrying their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
    their treasures on camel humps,
    to a people who cannot profit them.
⁷ Egypt’s help is futile and pointless.
Therefore I have called her
    “Rahab who just sits.”

⁸ Now go, write it on a tablet for them
    and inscribe it in a scroll,
so that it may be as a witness
    for the last day, forever.