以赛亚书 31:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

埃及無助，唯　神能拯救那些下埃及求幫助，倚靠馬匹，倚靠眾多戰車，依靠十分強壯的馬兵，卻不仰望以色列的聖者，也不求問耶和華的，有禍了！

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
祸 哉 ！ 那 些 下 埃 及 求 帮 助 的 ， 是 因 仗 赖 马 匹 ， 倚 靠 甚 多 的 车 辆 ， 并 倚 靠 强 壮 的 马 兵 ， 却 不 仰 望 以 色 列 的 圣 者 ， 也 不 求 问 耶 和 华 。

Contextual Overview

¹ How terrible it will be for those people who go down to Egypt for help. They think horses will save them. They think their many chariots and strong horsemen will save them. But they don't trust God, the Holy One of Israel, or ask the Lord for help. ² But he is wise and can bring them disaster. He does not change his warnings. He will rise up and fight against the evil people and against those who try to help evil people. ³ The Egyptians are only people and are not God. Their horses are only animals and are not spirit. The Lord will stretch out his arm, and the one who helps will stumble, and the people who wanted help will fall. All of them will be destroyed together. ⁴ The Lord says this to me: "When a lion or a lion's cub kills an animal to eat, it stands over the dead animal and roars. A band of shepherds may be assembled against it, but the lion will not be afraid of their yelling or upset by their noise. So the Lord All-Powerful will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. ⁵ The Lord All-Powerful will defend Jerusalem like birds flying over their nests. He will defend and save it; he will ‘pass over' and save Jerusalem."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to them: Isaiah 30:1-7, Isaiah 36:6, Isaiah 57:9, Ezekiel 17:15, Hosea 11:5

stay on horses: Isaiah 30:16, Isaiah 36:9, Deuteronomy 17:16, Psalms 20:7, Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:17, the look, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 17:7, Isaiah 17:8, Isaiah 22:11, 2 Chronicles 16:7, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 17:5, Hosea 14:3

neither: Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 64:7, Daniel 9:13, Hosea 7:7, Hosea 7:13-16, Amos 5:4-8

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:17 - for horses Deuteronomy 20:1 - horses Joshua 11:6 - horses 1 Kings 10:28 - horses brought 1 Kings 15:19 - There is a league 2 Kings 7:6 - the kings of the Egyptians 2 Kings 17:4 - king of Egypt 2 Kings 18:21 - upon Egypt 2 Kings 18:24 - thy trust 2 Chronicles 9:28 - brought 2 Chronicles 16:3 - a league Job 39:11 - trust Psalms 91:11 - in all Psalms 118:9 - than to put Psalms 147:10 - delighteth Proverbs 21:31 - horse Song of Solomon 1:9 - to a Isaiah 2:7 - their land is Isaiah 7:18 - fly Isaiah 10:3 - to whom Isaiah 18:1 - the land Isaiah 20:6 - whither Isaiah 26:3 - stayed Isaiah 30:2 - walk Isaiah 30:5 - General Isaiah 30:7 - the Egyptians Isaiah 30:12 - Because Jeremiah 2:16 - Also the Jeremiah 2:18 - what hast Jeremiah 2:36 - thou also shalt Jeremiah 12:13 - put Jeremiah 21:12 - Execute Jeremiah 22:20 - and cry Jeremiah 37:7 - Pharaoh's Jeremiah 42:14 - we will go Jeremiah 42:19 - Go Jeremiah 46:25 - and all Lamentations 4:17 - our eyes Lamentations 5:6 - to the Egyptians Ezekiel 17:9 - Shall it Ezekiel 29:6 - a staff Ezekiel 29:16 - the confidence Hosea 2:7 - she shall follow Hosea 7:11 - they call Hosea 10:12 - time Zephaniah 3:2 - she trusted Romans 3:11 - seeketh Hebrews 12:2 - Looking

Cross-References

Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to Jacob, "Go back to the land where your ancestors lived, and I will be with you."

Genesis 31:4
So Jacob told Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his flocks.

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have seen that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:8
When Laban said, ‘You can have all the speckled animals as your pay,' all the animals gave birth to speckled young ones. But when he said, ‘You can have all the streaked animals as your pay,' all the flocks gave birth to streaked babies.

Genesis 31:9
So God has taken the animals away from your father and has given them to me.

Genesis 31:16
God took all this wealth from our father, and now it belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do."

Genesis 31:17
So Jacob put his children and his wives on camels,

Genesis 31:24
That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, "Be careful! Do not say anything to Jacob, good or bad."

Genesis 31:25
So Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had made his camp in the mountains, so Laban and his relatives set up their camp in the mountains of Gilead.

Genesis 45:13
So tell my father about how powerful I have become in Egypt. Tell him about everything you have seen. Now hurry and bring him back to me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help,.... Or, "O ye that go down", c. what poor foolish creatures are you! And in the end what miserable and wretched ones will ye be! Such were the Jewish rulers and people, who either went themselves, or sent ambassadors to the king of Egypt, to supply them with men and horses against the king of Assyria, contrary to the express command of God, which forbid them returning to Egypt; and which showed their unmindfulness of deliverance from thence, and their not having a due sense of that mercy upon them; as well as their so doing exposed them to the danger of being drawn into the superstitions and idolatries of that people:

and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they] are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; having their dependence upon, and placing their confidence in, the strength and numbers of the cavalry of the Egyptians:

but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord; they did not look unto the Lord with an eye of faith, nor seek him by prayer and supplication; or ask any counsel or instruction of him, as the Targum paraphrases the last clause; so that their sin lay not only in their confidence in the creature, but in their neglect of the Lord himself; and so all such persons are foolish and miserable, that trust in an arm of flesh, that place their confidence in creature acts, in their own righteousness, duties, and services, and have no regard to the Holy One of Israel, to the holiness and righteousness of Christ, neglect that, and do not submit to it; thus the Targum interprets the former clause of the Word of the Holy One of Israel, the essential Word Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wo - (see the note at Isaiah 30:1).

To them that go down to Egypt - (see the note at Isaiah 30:2).

And stay on horses - (see the note at Isaiah 30:16).

And trust in chariots - (see the note at Isaiah 21:7). That they were often used in war, is apparent from the following places Joshua 11:4; Judges 1:19; 1 Samuel 13:5; 2 Samuel 8:4.

Because they are many - Because they hope to secure the aid of many. See the references above. It is evident that their confidence in them would be in proportion to the number which they could bring into the field.

But they look not ... - (see the note at Isaiah 30:1)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXI

The Jews again reproved for their confidence in Egypt, finely

contrasted with their neglect of the power and protection of

God, 1-3.

Deliverance and protection are, notwithstanding, promised,

expressed by two similes; the first remarkably lofty and

poetical, the latter singularly beautiful and tender, 4, 5.

Exhortation to repentance, joined with the prediction of a more

reformed period, 6, 7.

This chapter concludes like the preceding, with a prophecy of

the fall of Sennacherib, 8, 9.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXI

Verse Isaiah 31:1. Wo to them that go down to Egypt — This is a reproof to the Israelites for forming an alliance with the Egyptians, and not trusting in the Lord.

And stay on horses - "Who trust in horses"] For ועל veal, and upon, first twenty MSS. of Kennicott's, thirty of De Rossi's, one of my own, and the Septuagint, Arabic, and Vulgate, read על al, upon, without the conjunction, which disturbs the sense.