以赛亚书 30:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們起程下埃及去，並沒有求問我，卻要在法老的保護下，作避難處，投靠在埃及的蔭庇下。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
起 身 下 埃 及 去 ， 并 没 有 求 问 我 ； 要 靠 法 老 的 力 量 加 添 自 己 的 力 量 ， 并 投 在 埃 及 的 荫 下 。

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord said, "How terrible it will be for these stubborn children. They make plans, but they don't ask me to help them. They make agreements with other nations, without asking my Spirit. They are adding more and more sins to themselves. ² They go down to Egypt for help without asking me about it first. They hope they will be saved by the king of Egypt; they want Egypt to protect them. ³ But hiding in Egypt will bring you only shame; Egypt's protection will only disappoint you. ⁴ Your officers have gone to Zoan, and your messengers have gone to Hanes, ⁵ but they will be put to shame, because Egypt is useless to them. It will give no help and will be of no use; it will cause them only shame and embarrassment." ⁶ This is a message about the animals in southern Judah: Southern Judah is a dangerous place full of lions and lionesses, poisonous snakes and darting snakes. The messengers travel through there with their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasure on the backs of camels. They carry them to a nation that cannot help them, ⁷ to Egypt whose help is useless. So I call that country Rahab the Do-Nothing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

walk: Isaiah 20:5, Isaiah 20:6, Isaiah 31:1-3, Isaiah 36:6, Deuteronomy 28:68, 2 Kings 17:4, Jeremiah 37:5, Jeremiah 43:7, Ezekiel 29:6, Ezekiel 29:7

and have: Numbers 27:21, Joshua 9:14, 1 Kings 22:7, Jeremiah 21:2, Jeremiah 42:2, Jeremiah 42:20

the shadow: Isaiah 16:3, Isaiah 18:1, Judges 9:15, Lamentations 4:20

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:9 - defence 2 Kings 18:21 - upon Egypt Psalms 118:9 - than to put Ecclesiastes 7:12 - a defence Isaiah 7:18 - fly Isaiah 18:2 - sendeth Jeremiah 41:17 - to go Jeremiah 46:25 - and all Hosea 2:7 - she shall follow Hosea 14:3 - we will not

Cross-References

Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the Lord has not allowed me to have children, so have sexual relations with my slave girl. If she has a child, maybe I can have my own family through her." Abram did what Sarai said.

Genesis 20:18
The Lord had kept all the women in Abimelech's house from having children as a punishment on Abimelech for taking Abraham's wife Sarah.

Genesis 25:21
Isaac's wife could not have children, so Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord heard Isaac's prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant.

Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, he made it possible for Leah to have children, but not Rachel.

Genesis 30:5
She became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has judged me innocent. He has listened to my prayer and has given me a son," so she named him Dan.

Genesis 30:13
and Leah said, "I am very happy! Now women will call me happy," so she named him Asher.

Genesis 30:14
During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the field and found some mandrake plants and brought them to his mother Leah. But Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 31:36
Then Jacob became very angry and said, "What wrong have I done? What law have I broken to cause you to chase me?

Genesis 50:19
Then Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid. Can I do what only God can do?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That walk to go down into Egypt,.... That walk out of their own land to go thither; who sent messengers thither to form an alliance, and get help and assistance, or went in person, to secure themselves from present danger. Jarchi refers this to the times of Hoshea, the son of Elah, king of Israel, who sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, 2 Kings 17:4. Jerom to the times of Jeremiah, to the history in his prophecy, Jeremiah 41:17 and others to Zedekiah. Kimchi thinks it respects the time of Ahaz, though there is no account, either in the books of Kings or Chronicles, of sending then to Egypt for help; or else to the times of Hezekiah himself; which latter is right, as appears from the insults of Rabshakeh, when Sennacherib's army was before Jerusalem,

Isaiah 36:6:

and have not asked at my mouth: or as the Targum,

"the words of my prophets they have not asked;''

they did not inquire of the prophets of the Lord, whether they should go down or not:

to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh; by making an alliance with him, and receiving men and horses from him, to assist them against the Assyrians; this Pharaoh was he whom the Scriptures call So, 2 Kings 17:4 and by other writers, Sevechus and Sethon:

and to trust in the shadow of Egypt; the protection that would afford them, in which they placed their confidence, and thought themselves safe from their other enemy, by having so powerful an ally; but this was but a shadow, as are whatsoever men trust in short of the Lord himself, be they riches or righteousness, or any creature or creature enjoyment.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That walk to go down to Egypt - Hebrew, ‘Going in the descent to Egypt.’ That is, they do it by their ambassadors Isaiah 30:4. The journey to Egypt from Palestine is always represented as going down Genesis 12:10; Genesis 42:3; Genesis 43:15; Numbers 20:15; Deuteronomy 10:22.

To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh - To form an alliance with Pharaoh, that thus they might be able to repel the threatened invasion. Pharaoh was the general name of the kings of Egypt, in the same manner as Caesar was the common name of the emperors of Rome.

To trust in the shadow of Egypt - A ‘shadow’ (צל tsêl) is an emblem of protection and defense, as a shade is a protection from the burning rays of the sun (see the note at Isaiah 4:6).