30 Yahweh declares that you rebellious children won’t end well.

You’re making plans that don’t come from me,

and pouring out drink offerings but not by my spirit,

thus adding disobedience to disobedience.

2 Those who go down to Egypt didn’t ask my advice,

before trying to reach safety with Far-oh (Pharaoh),

≈ and trying to find security in Egypt’s (Heb. Mitsrayim’s) shadow.

3 But Far’oh’s safety will bring you all shame,

≈ and Egypt’s security will bring you all humiliation,

4 because its officials have been in Tsoan,

and its messengers have reached Hanes.

5 Everyone will be ashamed because of a nation that won’t benefit them—

not help, nor advantage, but shame and even disgrace.

6 This is a message about the Negev desert’s animals:

In the area of trouble and danger

from the lioness and the lion,

≈ and the viper and the flying serpent,

they carry their wealth on donkeys’ shoulders

≈ and their treasures on camels’ humps,

to a nation that can’t help them.

7 Egypt’s ‘help’ is futile and meaningless,

so I’ve called her ‘Rahab who just sits there’.