7 And Egypt, vain and empty will be their help: therefore I cry concerning this, Rahab are they, a sitting still.

8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and inscribe it in a book, and let it be for an after day, for ever and ever:

9 For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that will not hear the law of the LORD:

10 Which say to the seers, Ye shall not see, and to them that have vision, Have visions not of right things, speak unto us smooth things, see delusive visions.

11 Remove you out of the way, turn aside out of the path; make to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.

12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and crookedness, and stay thereon;

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as afalling breach, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometb suddenly, in a moment.

4. Or, ‘ When his princes shall be at Z..' c7. Lit. ‘ in vain and emptily will they help.'8. ‘ before them ’: or, ‘among (lit. with) them.9. ‘lying,’ or, ‘ renegade sons,' cf. lix. 13.11. ‘ cease': word means ‘ to sit still,' as ver. 7.

14 And he shall break it as a ’s jar is broken, shivering it unsparingly; and there shall not be found a sherd among the shivered fragments thereof, to take fire. from the hearth, or to draw water from a cistern.

15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved: in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye were unwilling.