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Chapter 31 |
| 1 | Woe to them
that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots,
because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they
look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! |
| 2 | Yet he
also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will
arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that
work iniquity. |
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3 | Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their
horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he
that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all
shall fail together. |
| 4 | For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like
as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice,
nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down
to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. |
| 5 | As birds
flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will
deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. |
| 6 | Turn ye unto
him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. |
| 7 | For in
that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. |
| 8 | Then shall the
Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean
man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men
shall be discomfited. |
| 9 | And he shall pass over to his strong hold for
fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire
is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. |
