Isaiah 30:5

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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Isaiah 30:16, Isaiah 20:5, Isaiah 20:6, Isaiah 31:1-3, Jeremiah 2:36

Reciprocal: Isaiah 30:3 - the strength Jeremiah 2:8 - do not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them,.... The princes, the ambassadors that were sent unto them, and the king or people, or both, that sent them, who hoped for and expected great things from them, but, being disappointed, were filled with shame; because either the Egyptians, who are the people here meant, either could not help them, or would not, not daring to engage with so powerful an enemy as the Assyrian monarch, which is illustrated and confirmed by repeating the same, and using other words:

nor be an help, nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach: so far from being of any advantage to them, by helping and assisting them against their enemy, wanting either inclination or capacity, or both, that it not only turned to their shame, but even was matter of reproach to them, that ever they made any application to them, or placed any confidence in them for help.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They were all ashamed - That is, all the legates or ambassadors. When they came into Egypt, they found them either unwilling to enter into an alliance, or unable to render them any aid, and they were ashamed that they had sought their assistance rather than depend on God (compare Jeremiah 2:36).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 30:5. Were - ashamed — Eight MSS. (one ancient) of Kennicott's, and ten of De Rossi's, read הביש hobish, without א aleph. So the Chaldee and Vulgate.

But a shame - "But proved even a shame"] Four MSS. (three ancient) after כי ki, add אם im, unless, which seems wanted to complete the phrase in its usual form.