Isaiah 30:3
Good News Translation
But the king will be powerless to help them, and Egypt's protection will end in disaster.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.

Contemporary English Version
"You will be disappointed, completely disgraced for trusting Egypt.

New American Bible
Pharaoh’s protection shall become your shame, refuge in Egypt’s shadow your disgrace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.

the strength

Isaiah 30:5-7 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. . . .

Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.

Jeremiah 37:5-10 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying: . . .

your confusion

Isaiah 45:16,17 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion. . . .

Jeremiah 17:5,6 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. . . .

Romans 5:5 And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.

Romans 10:11 For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

Context
The Worthless Treaty with Egypt
2Who 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. 3And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.4For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.…
Cross References
2 Kings 18:21
Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if a man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is Pharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.

Psalm 108:12
O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 20:6
And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?

Isaiah 36:6
Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

Jeremiah 2:36
How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over again! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 42:18
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place no more.

Jeremiah 42:22
Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to dwell there.

Hosea 10:6
For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will.

Isaiah 30:2
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