Isaiah Chapter 30 verse 5 Holy Bible
They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.
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They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - They were all ashamed; rather, all are ashamed. The reference is not to the ambassadors, who felt no shame in their embassy, and probably returned elated by the promises made them; but to the subsequent feelings of the Jewish nation, when it was discovered by sad experience that no reliance was to be placed on "the strength of Pharaoh." A people that could not profit them. Mr. Cheyne compares, very pertinently, an inscription of Sargon's, where he says of the people of Philistia, Judah, Edom, and Moab, that "they and their evil chiefs, to fight against me, unto Pharaoh, King of Egypt, a monarch who could not save them, their presents carried, and besought his alliance" (G. Smith, 'Eponym Canon,' p. 130, II. 35-39). Egypt was, in fact, quite unable to cope with Assyria, and knew it. A shame, and also a reproach. A matter of which they would themselves be "ashamed," and with which the Assyrians would "reproach" them (as they did, 2 Kings 18:21, 24).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) They were all ashamed . . .--Better, are: historic present, as before. The prophet paints the dreary disappointment of the embassy. They found Egypt at once weak and false, without the will or power to help them. So Rabshakeh compares that power to a "broken reed," which does but pierce the hand of him who leans on it. So Sargon (Smith, Assyrian Canon, p. 133, quoted by Cheyne), describing the resistance of his foes, says that they "carried presents, seeking his alliance, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, a monarch who could not help them."
