3 Therefore the safety of Pharaoh shall be your shameand the trust in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.
4 For their princes were at Zoan,and their ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They all will be ashamedof a people who cannot profit them,who are not a help or profit,but a shame and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of trouble and anguish,from which comes the lioness and lion,the viper and fiery flying serpent,they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys,and their treasures on the humps of camels,to a people who shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.Therefore, I have called her,“Rahab who has been exterminated.”
8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet,and note it in a book,that it may serve in the time to comeas a witness forever;
9 for this is a rebellious people, lying children,children who refuse to listen to the law of the Lord;