Isaiah 30:3

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Woe to the rebellious children, declares the LORD, to those who carry out a plan, but not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. ²They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh's protection and take refuge in the shade of Egypt. ³But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt's shadow your disgrace.⁴For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes, ⁵everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach. ⁶This is an oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them. ⁷Egypt's help is vain and empty; therefore I have called her, 'Rahab Who Just Sits Still.'

Bible Verse Review
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the strength: Isaiah 30:5-7, Isaiah 20:5, Jeremiah 37:5-10

your confusion: Isaiah 45:16, Isaiah 45:17, Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:6, Romans 5:5, Romans 10:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:9 - defence 2 Chronicles 28:20 - distressed him Psalms 108:12 - for vain Psalms 118:9 - than to put Isaiah 18:1 - the land Isaiah 31:2 - against the help Jeremiah 41:17 - to go Jeremiah 46:25 - and all Ezekiel 16:33 - but thou Hosea 2:7 - she shall follow Hosea 10:6 - ashamed

Cross-References

Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?"

Genesis 30:3
Then she said, "Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, and she will bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family."

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 50:23
He saw Ephraim's sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph's knees.

Ruth 4:11
"We are witnesses," said the elders and all the people at the gate. "May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

Job 3:12
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,.... They should be disappointed of the help and assistance they expected from him, and so be ashamed of their ally, and of confidence in him:

and the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion; they should be confounded, when they should find themselves unsupported by the Egyptians, in whom they put their confidence; so all such that trust in the creature, or in an arm of flesh, sooner or later are ashamed and confounded; but those that trust in the Lord never are, neither in this world, nor in that to come.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame - (see the note at Isaiah 20:5).

Your confusion - Hebrew, ‘For reproach.’ It would either occur that the Egyptians “would” not enter into an alliance; or that if they did, they “could” not defend them, and in either case it would be the source of deep regret and shame.