Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt

1Woe to those going down to Egypt for help,

who rely on horses

and trust in chariots that are many,

and in horsemen that they are very numerous,

and they do not look to the Holy One of Israel,

and YHWH they do not seek.

2He is also wise, and He brings disaster;

and His words He does not turn aside,

and He will rise up against a house of evildoers,

and against the help of the workers of iniquity.

3For Egypt is is man and not God,

and their horses are flesh and not Spirit.

And YHWH stretches out His hand,

and the helper will stumble,

and the one being helped will fall,

and together all of them will perish.

4For thus has said YHWH to me:

“As the lion roars

or the young lion over his prey,

when a multitude of shepherds is called against him—

at their voice he is not afraid

and at their clamor he is not alarmed—

so YHWH of Hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion,

and on her hill.

5Like birds flying about,

so YHWH of hosts will give cover over Jerusalem,

covering and delivering it,

passing over and preserving it.”

6Return to the one against whom you have deeply rebelled, O sons of Israel, 7for in that day, a man will reject the idols of his silver and the idols of his gold, which your⁺ own hands have made for you⁺ as sin.

8And Assyria Will fall by a sword not of man,

and a sword not of man will devour him;

and he will flee from from the face of the sword,

and his young men will be for forced labor.

9And his stronghold will pass away at the terror,

and his princes will be frightened at the banner,”

says YHWH, whose fire unto Him is in Zion,

and a furnace unto Him is in Jerusalem.