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Isaiah 31

Help Not in Egypt but in God

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Woe to those who go down to  aEgypt for help And  brely on horses, And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very strong, But they do not  clook to the  dHoly One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

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Yet He also is  awise and will  bbring disaster And does  cnot retract His words, But will arise against the house of  devildoers And against the help of the  eworkers of iniquity.

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Now the Egyptians are  amen and not God, And their  bhorses are flesh and not spirit; So the LORD will  cstretch out His hand, And  dhe who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.

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For thus says the LORD to me, "As the  alion or the young lion growls over his prey, Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise, So will the LORD of hosts come down to wage  bwar on Mount Zion and on its hill."

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Like  1flying  abirds so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will  bprotect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.

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 aReturn to Him from whom  1you have  bdeeply defected, O sons of Israel.

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For in that day every man will  acast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your  bsinful hands have made for you as  ba sin.

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And the  aAssyrian will fall by a sword not of man, And a  bsword not of man will devour him. So he will  1 cnot escape the sword, And his young men will become  dforced laborers.

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"His  arock will pass away because of panic, And his princes will be terrified at the  bstandard," Declares the LORD, whose  cfire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.



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