Isaiah 30:3 · KJV
“Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt {your} confusion.”
— Isaiah 30:3
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
Isaiah 30 — Context
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt {your} confusion.
4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5They were all ashamed of a people {that} could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Cross References
Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Jeremiah 17:5-6
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed {be} the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Romans 10:11
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Romans 5:5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Isaiah 45:16-17
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together {that are} makers of idols.
Isaiah 36:6
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so {is} Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
Jeremiah 37:5-10
Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 30:5-7
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.