The Worthless Treaty with Egypt
“Woe to the rebellious children,” Isa 65:2Isa 1:2Hos 7:13Isa 63:10Hos 4:10-12Isa 29:15Rom 2:52Ti 3:13
declares the LORD,
“to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine,
who form an alliance, but against My will,
heaping up sin upon sin.
They set out to go down to Egypt Isa 36:6Num 27:21Deu 28:68Ezk 29:6-7Jer 42:20Jer 43:7Lam 4:201Ki 22:7
without asking My advice,
to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.
But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, Isa 20:5Jer 17:5-6Rom 10:11Rom 5:5Isa 30:5-7Isa 36:6Isa 45:16-17Jer 37:5-10
and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
For though their princes are at Zoan Isa 19:11Isa 57:9Jer 43:72Ki 17:4Ezk 30:14Ezk 30:18Hos 7:11-12Hos 7:16
and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
everyone will be put to shame Jer 2:36Isa 30:7Isa 20:5-6Isa 30:16Isa 31:1-3
because of a people useless to them.
They cannot be of help;
they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Deu 8:15Isa 46:1-2Deu 4:20Jer 11:41Ki 10:2Hos 8:9-102Ch 16:22Ch 28:20-23
Through a land of hardship and distress,
of lioness and lion,
of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people of no profit to them.
Egypt’s help is futile and empty; Isa 2:22Hos 5:13Isa 31:1-5Isa 7:4Lam 3:26Psa 118:8-9Exo 14:13Isa 28:12
therefore I have called her
Rahab Who Sits Still. 1
Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence Deu 31:22Hab 2:2Isa 8:1Deu 31:19Jer 36:2Jer 36:28-32Jer 51:60Job 19:23-25
and inscribe it on a scroll;
it will be for the days to come,
a witness forever and ever.
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, Isa 30:1Act 7:51Isa 1:4Pro 28:9Rev 21:8Zec 1:4-6Zec 7:11-12Zep 3:2
children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
They say to the seers, Ezk 13:7-10Rom 16:18Amo 2:12Amo 7:13Jer 11:21Jer 23:17Jer 23:26-29Rev 11:7
“Stop seeing visions!”
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy to us the truth!
Speak to us pleasant words;
prophesy illusions.
Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rom 8:7Amo 7:13Eph 4:18Isa 29:21Jhn 15:23-24Job 21:14Rom 1:28Rom 1:30
Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: Isa 31:1-31Th 4:8Amo 2:4Isa 5:24Isa 47:10Luk 10:162Sa 12:9-10Isa 28:15
“Because you have rejected this message,
trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, Ezk 13:10-15Isa 29:51Ki 20:30Pro 29:1Psa 62:31Th 5:1-3Job 36:18Luk 6:49
a bulge in a high wall,
whose collapse will come suddenly—
in an instant!
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, Psa 2:9Jer 19:10-112Pe 2:4-5Rev 2:27Ezk 24:14Rom 11:21Deu 29:20Ezk 15:3-8
shattered so that no fragment can be found.
Not a shard will be found in the dust
large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth
or to skim the water from a cistern.”
For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: Isa 26:3-4Isa 32:17Jer 3:22-23Psa 125:1-21Ch 5:20Jhn 5:402Ch 16:8Luk 13:34
“By repentance and rest
you would be saved;
your strength would lie in quiet confidence—
but you were not willing.”
“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Isa 31:1Amo 9:1Deu 28:25Isa 31:3Jer 4:13Psa 33:17Amo 2:14-16Deu 28:49
Therefore you will flee!
“We will ride swift horses,”
but your pursuers will be faster.
A thousand will flee at the threat of one; Deu 28:25Deu 32:30Jos 23:10Lev 26:36Lev 26:8Jhn 15:2-6Pro 28:1Rom 11:17
at the threat of five you will all flee,
until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop,
like a banner on a hill.
God Will Be Gracious
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; 2Pe 3:9Lam 3:25-26Pro 16:20Isa 25:9Isa 8:17Psa 34:82Pe 3:15Isa 55:8
therefore He rises to show you compassion,
for the LORD is a just God.
Blessed are all who wait for Him.
O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you. Isa 60:20Isa 65:24Psa 50:15Isa 58:9Mat 7:7-111Jn 5:14-15Rev 7:17Isa 25:8 The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him. 1Ki 22:27Psa 80:5Amo 8:11-12Act 14:22Psa 127:2Psa 74:9Deu 16:3Psa 102:9
And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.” Psa 32:8Pro 3:5-6Isa 58:11Isa 42:16Deu 5:32Isa 35:8-9Psa 143:8-10Isa 48:17 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!” Isa 31:7Jdg 17:3-4Isa 46:6Zec 13:2Exo 32:2-4Ezk 36:31Hos 14:8Isa 17:7-8
Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures. Zec 8:11-12Isa 32:20Psa 65:9-13Isa 58:11Zec 10:11Ti 4:8Amo 4:7-8Gen 41:18 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. Gen 45:6Deu 25:41Co 9:9-101Sa 8:12Deu 21:4Exo 34:21Luk 3:17Mat 3:12
And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall. Isa 2:14-15Isa 35:6-7Isa 43:19-202Co 10:4Ezk 17:22Ezk 34:13Ezk 34:26Ezk 39:17-20 The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted. Isa 60:19-20Deu 32:39Rev 22:5Rev 21:23Isa 24:23Job 5:18Zec 14:7Jer 33:5-6
Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, 2Th 2:8Zep 3:8Dan 7:9Deu 32:22Deu 33:2Heb 12:29Isa 10:16-17Isa 10:5
with burning anger and dense smoke.
His lips are full of fury,
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
His breath is like a rushing torrent Isa 37:292Th 2:8Isa 11:4Isa 8:82Ki 19:28Amo 9:9Luk 22:31Heb 4:12
that rises to the neck.
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction;
He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
You will sing Psa 42:4Exo 15:1-21Psa 95:1-2Deu 16:6Deu 32:4Isa 2:3Isa 26:4Mat 26:30
as on the night of a holy festival,
and your heart will rejoice
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the Rock of Israel.
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard Isa 29:6Psa 18:13-14Jos 10:11Ezk 38:19-22Isa 28:2Nam 1:2-6Rev 11:19Rev 16:18-21
and His mighty arm to be revealed,
striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire,
and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; Isa 10:5Isa 11:4Isa 9:4Mic 5:5-6Psa 125:5Psa 17:13-14Isa 10:12Isa 10:15
He will strike them with His scepter.
And with every stroke of the rod of punishment 2 Isa 11:15Ezk 32:10Isa 19:16Isa 2:19Psa 81:1-21Sa 10:5Gen 31:27Heb 12:26
that the LORD brings down on them,
the tambourines and lyres will sound
as He battles with weapons brandished.
For Topheth has long been prepared; 2Ki 23:10Gen 19:24Jer 19:61Pe 1:8Heb 13:8Jer 19:11-14Jer 7:31-32Mat 4:22
it has been made ready for the king.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur,
sets it ablaze.