Isaiah 31

Revised Geneva Translation

31 Woe to those who go down into Egypt for help. They rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong. But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD.

² But He is still wisest. Therefore, He will bring misery, and not turn back His Word. But He will arise against the house of the wicked, and against the help of those who work vanity.

³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And when the LORD shall stretch out His Hand, the helper shall fall. And he who is helped shall fall. And they all shall fail.

⁴ For this has the LORD spoken to me, “As the lion or the lion’s whelp roars upon his prey, against whom a multitude of shepherds are called, he will not be afraid at their voice. Nor will he humble himself at their noise. So shall the LORD of Hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.

⁵ “As birds that fly, so shall the LORD of Hosts defend Jerusalem by defending and delivering, by passing through and preserving it.”

⁶ O you children of Israel, turn again, inasmuch as you are sunken deep in rebellion!

⁷ For on that day, every man shall cast out his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, sin which your hands have made.

⁸ “Then shall Assyria fall by the sword—not of man, nor shall the sword of man devour him—and he shall flee from the sword. And his young men shall faint.

⁹ “And he shall go in fear to his tower. And his princes shall be afraid of the standard,” says the LORD, Whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.”