Isaiah 30:3 “But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egy…”

Isaiah 30:3

But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

World English Bible

Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

American Standard Version

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Geneva Bible 1599

But the strength of Pharaoh shalbe your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Darby Translation

For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.

Young's Literal Translation

And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,

Bible in Basic English

And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

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Cross references

“the strength”

Isaiah 20:5 Isaiah 30:5–7 Jeremiah 37:5–10

Isaiah 20:5 · BSB

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

Isaiah 30:5–7 · BSB

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”

Jeremiah 37:5–10 · BSB

Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

“your confusion”

Romans 10:11 Romans 5:5 Isaiah 45:16 Isaiah 45:17 Jeremiah 17:5 Jeremiah 17:6

Romans 10:11 · BSB

It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

Romans 5:5 · BSB

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

Isaiah 45:16 · BSB

They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.

Isaiah 45:17 · BSB

But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

Jeremiah 17:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Also

Isaiah 36:6

Isaiah 36:6 · BSB

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

4For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

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