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For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

Isaiah 30:7 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયશાયા ૩૦:૭
પણ મિસરની સહાય વ્યર્થ છે; તે માટે મેં તેનું નામ બેસી રહેનારી રાહાબ પાડ્યું છે.
हिन्दीयशायाह ३०:७
क्योंकि मिस्र की सहायता व्यर्थ और निकम्मी है, इस कारण मैंने उसको ‘बैठी रहनेवाली रहब’ कहा है।

In context

5They 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.”

6The 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.

7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

8Now 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.

9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law;

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