| Isa. 31:1 |
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help; / They rely on horses / And trust in chariots because they are many / And in horsemen because they are very strong; / But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, / Nor seek Jehovah! |
| Isa. 31:2 |
But He also is wise and will bring ill [upon them;] / And He does not turn back His words, / But will rise up against the house of evildoers / And against the help of the workers of iniquity. |
| Isa. 31:3 |
The Egyptians are [mere] men and not God, / And their horses are [mere] flesh and not spirit; / Thus Jehovah will stretch out His hand, / And he who helps will stumble and he who is helped will fall, / And all of them will be consumed together. |
| Isa. 31:4 |
For Jehovah has spoken thus to me, / As the lion or the lion cub / Roars over its prey / [And] because of it a crowd of shepherds / Is called out, / [But] it is not frightened by their voice, / Nor overcome by their noise; / So Jehovah of hosts will descend / To wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill. |
| Isa. 31:5 |
Like flying birds / So Jehovah of hosts will protect Jerusalem; / He will protect and deliver [it;] / He will pass over and rescue [it.] |
| Isa. 31:6 |
Return to Him from whom [men] have deeply revolted, O children of Israel. |
| Isa. 31:7 |
For in that day each man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you as a sin. |
| Isa. 31:8 |
And the Assyrian will fall by the sword not of a man, / And the sword not of man will devour him. / Thus he will flee from a sword, / And his young men will be forced into labor. |
| Isa. 31:9 |
And his rock will pass away in terror, / And his princes will be dismayed by the standard, / Declares Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion / And whose furnace is in Jerusalem. |