Isaiah 31

¹ Woe to those going down to Egypt for help! On horses are they leaning, and trusting in chariots, for they are many, and on horsemen, for they are very staunch. And they do not heed the Holy One of Israel, and of Yahweh Elohim they do not inquire. ² Yet, moreover, He is wise, and will bring evil, and His words He does not take away, and He rises against the house of the evil doers, and against the help of the contrivers of lawlessness. ³ Yet Egyptians are human and not the El, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh is stretching out His hand, then the helper falters; and he who is helped falls. And, together, all of them will be finished. ⁴ For thus says Yahweh to me, "As snarling is the lion and the sheltered lion over its prey, when calling against it are a full number of graziers, by their voice it is not being dismayed, and by their throng it is not being humbled, so will Yahweh of hosts descend to muster on mount Zion, and on its hill. ⁵ As birds flying, so will Yahweh of hosts protect Jerusalem. Protecting, He will also rescue, and skipping over, He will also make an escape." ⁶ Return to Him Who deepens counsel, you stubborn sons of Israel! ⁷ For in that day each man will reject the forbidden idols of his silver, and the forbidden idols of his gold, which your hands make for you to sin. ⁸ And Assyria will fall by a sword, not of a man, and a sword, not of a human, shall devour it. And it flees, not from the presence of the sword, yet its choice men shall become a labor levy. ⁹ And its crag, from shrinking, shall pass, and dismayed are its chiefs from fleeing.Thus averring is Yahweh, whose light is in Zion, and his lamp is in Jerusalem.