Isaiah 31:1

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Isaiah 31:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 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.

2 Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

3 But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

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Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

Isaiah 30:2

They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

Isaiah 30:3

But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

Isaiah 30:4

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

Isaiah 30:5

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”

Isaiah 30:6

This 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.

Isaiah 30:7

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

Isaiah 36:6

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 57:9

You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

Ezekiel 17:15

But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’

Hosea 11:5

Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?

Isaiah 30:16

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

Isaiah 36:9

For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Deuteronomy 17:16

But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’

Psalms 20:7

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Psalms 33:16

No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

Psalms 33:17

A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

Isaiah 5:12

At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

Isaiah 17:7

In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17:8

They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.

Isaiah 22:11

You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

2 Chronicles 16:7

At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

Jeremiah 2:13

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Isaiah 9:13

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 64:7

No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Daniel 9:13

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

Hosea 7:7

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

Hosea 7:15

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

Hosea 7:16

They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

Amos 5:4

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

Amos 5:5

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Amos 5:6

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Amos 5:7

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—