⁹ How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

⁸ For he says, Are not all my captains kings?

³⁶ Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

⁶ See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.

³ For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

¹⁶ Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

¹⁷ A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.

⁷ For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

² Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

³ And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

⁴ For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.

⁵ For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

⁵ And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.

³¹ The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

²⁴ How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

¹⁶ And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.