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Isaiah 30:5

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isaiah 30:5 · King James Version

In other versions

  • They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

    ASV

  • 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.

    BBE

  • They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

    DBY

  • They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

    WEB

  • All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

    YLT

  • They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

    ENG

  • They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

    WBT

  • everyone 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.”

    BSB

In context

3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

5They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

7For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

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