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Isaiah 31

31 Woe to the ones going down to Egypt for help!

They rely on horses and trust in chariots that are many

and in horsemen that are very numerous,

but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel

and they do not seek Yahweh.

2 Yet he too is wise, and he will bring harm,

and he has not turned his words aside.

And he will arise against the house of evildoers

and against the help of doers of iniquity.

3 For Egypt is man and not God,

and their horses are flesh and not spirit.

And Yahweh will stretch out his hand,

and the helper will stumble,

and the helped will fall,

and all of them will perish together.

4 For thus Yahweh said to me,

“As a lion growls,

or a young lion, over its prey,

when a fullness of shepherds is called out against it,

it is not frightened by their voice,

and it does not respond to their noise—

thus Yahweh of Armies will descend

to war on Mount Zion and on its hill.

5 Like birds flying,

thus Yahweh of Armies will cover over Jerusalem,

covering and delivering,

passing over and rescuing.”

6 Return to him from whom you have made rebellion deep, sons of Israel. 7 For in that day they will reject, a man, the idols of his silver and the idols of his gold, which your hands have made for yourselves as sin.

8 “And Assyria will fall by a sword not of man,

and a sword not of mankind will devour him.

And he will flee for himself from the face of the sword,

and his young men will be for forced labor.

9 And his rock will pass away from the terror,

and his princes will fear from the banner”

—the declaration of Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion

and a furnace is to him in Jerusalem.