5. 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.”
6. The burden of the animals of the South.Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
7. For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
8. Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
9. For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the Lord’s law;
10. who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
11. Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”