Isaiah 30:7
King James Version
“For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength to sit still.”
Context
4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5They were all ashamed of a people could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence 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 shall not profit
7For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength to sit still.
8Now go, write 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:
9That this a rebellious people, lying children, children will not hear the law of the LORD:
10Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: