Isaiah 30:4-8

“For their officials are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who do not benefit them, Who are not a help or benefit, but a source of shame and also disgrace.”

The pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of distress and anguish, From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on camels’ humps, To a people who will not benefit them;

Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her “Rahab who has been exterminated.”

Now go, write it on a tablet in their presence And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve in the time to come As a witness forever.