1. WOE to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sill:
2. Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, hoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow of Egypt.
3. And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.
4. For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.
5. They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach.
6. The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.
7. For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.