1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And rely on horses, And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very mighty, But they do not regard at the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Yahweh!
2 And does not turn His words aside, But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity.
3 And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So Yahweh will stretch out His hand, And he who helps will stumble, And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.
4 Against which a multitude of shepherds is called out, And it will not be dismayed at their voice nor afflicted at their noise, So will Yahweh of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill.”
5 He will defend and deliver it; He will pass over and provide a way of escape.
6 Return to Him against whom you have deeply rebelled, O sons of Israel.
7 For in that day every man will reject his silver idols and his gold idols, which your hands have made for you as a sin.
8 And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will flee from the sword, And his choice men will become forced laborers.
9 And his princes will be dismayed at the standard,” Declares Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
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