Isaiah 30:5

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.

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Isaiah 30:5 in other translations

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.”

Isaiah 30:5 · World English Bible

Isaiah 30:5 in context

  1. 3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
  2. 4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
  3. 5They 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.
  4. 6The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
  5. 7For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still.