Isaiah 30:5 “everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. The…”

Isaiah 30:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

World English Bible

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

American Standard Version

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Geneva Bible 1599

They shalbe all ashamed of the people that cannot profite them, nor helpe nor doe them good, but shalbe a shame and also a reproche.

Darby Translation

They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Young's Literal Translation

All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

Bible in Basic English

For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

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Cross references

“They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

Jeremiah 2:36 Isaiah 30:16 Isaiah 31:1–3 Isaiah 20:5 Isaiah 20:6

Jeremiah 2:36 · BSB

How impulsive you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

Isaiah 30:16 · BSB

“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.

Isaiah 31:1–3 · BSB

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.

Isaiah 20:5 · BSB

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

Isaiah 20:6 · BSB

And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”

Also

Isaiah 30:7

Isaiah 30:7 · BSB

Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

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

In context

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

6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

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