Woe to the ^arebellious children, saith the Lord, that take ^bcounsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of ^aPharaoh, and to trust ^bin the shadow of ^cEgypt!

 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

 5 They ^awere all ^bashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

 6 The ^aburden of the beasts of the ^bsouth: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

 7 For the ^aEgyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

 8 Now go, ^awrite it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

 9 That ^athis is a ^brebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

 10 Which say to the ^aseers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us ^bsmooth things, prophesy ^cdeceits:

 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

 14 And he shall break it as the ^abreaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.