Isaiah

Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt

1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,who rely on horses,who trust in their abundance of chariotsand in their multitude of horsemen.They do not look to the Holy One of Israel;they do not seek the LORD.

2Yet He too is wise and brings disaster;He does not call back His words.He will rise up against the house of the wickedand against the allies of evildoers.

3But the Egyptians are men, not God;their horses are flesh, not spirit.When the LORD stretches out His hand,the helper will stumble,and the one he helps will fall;both will perish together.

4For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaringor a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it,it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come downto do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

5Like birds hovering overhead,so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem.He will shield it and deliver it;He will pass over it and preserve it.”

6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

8“Then Assyria will fall,but not by the sword of man;a sword will devour them,but not one made by mortals.They will flee before the sword,and their young men will be put to forced labor.

9Their rock will pass away for fear,and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,”declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion,whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

1không kiếm tìm ĐỨC CHÚA.

2chống cự những kẻ làm điều dữ được mời đến tiếp viện.

3chúng sẽ cùng tiêu vong hết thảy.

4trên núi Xi-on, trên đồi của thành.

5Người sẽ bảo vệ và giải thoát, sẽ dung tha và cứu độ.

6với Đấng anh em đã phản bội nặng nề.

7do tay tội lỗi của anh em làm ra.

8trai tráng của nó sẽ phải làm lao dịch.

9và có lò tại Giê-ru-sa-lem.