The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 31
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 strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of
Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,
and will not call back his words, but
will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and against the help of those who
work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both
he who helps shall stumble,
and he who is helped shall fall,
and they all shall be consumed together.
4 For Yahweh says to me,
“As the lion and the young lion growling
over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called
together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice,
nor abase himself for their noise,
so Yahweh of Armies will come down
to fight on Mount Zion and on its
heights.
5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies
will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it.
He will pass over and preserve it.”
6 Return to him from whom you have
deeply revolted, children of Israel.
7 For in that day everyone shall cast away
his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin
which your own hands have made for you.
8 “The Assyrian willfall by the sword, not
of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall
devour him. He will flee from the sword,
and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
9 His rock will pass away by reason of
terror, and his princes will be afraid of the
banner,”says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem