3 But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame,Egypt’s shade will bring you disgrace.
4 Though they have officials in Zoanand their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
5 everyone will be put to shamebecause of a people useless to them,who bring neither help nor advantage,but only shame and disgrace.’
6 A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev:Through a land of hardship and distress,of lions and lionesses,of adders and darting snakes,the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs,their treasures on the humps of camels,to that unprofitable nation,
7 to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.Therefore I call herRahab the Do-Nothing.
8 Go now, write it on a tablet for them,inscribe it on a scroll,that for the days to comeit may be an everlasting witness.
9 For these are rebellious people, deceitful children,children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.