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| 1 Wo [to] those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought. |
Go down to Egypt – The world. C316
For help – For worldly ideas and plans and for counsel as to how they should act in the crisis of this great day. C316
And stay on horses – Who endeavor still to ride the old false doctrinal hobbies. C316
Trust in chariots – Worldly organizations. C316
And in horsemen – The great leaders in false doctrines. C316
Seek the LORD! – With whom alone is safety and victory in the time of trouble. C316
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| 2 And He also [is] wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity. |
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| 3 And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses [are] flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed. |
Shall stretch out – As he will do shortly. C316
His hand – His power, the power of the truth and other agencies. C316
He that is holpen – By the powers of Egypt, the world's ideas. C316
Shall fall together – In their human plans and schemes. C316
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| 4 For thus said Jehovah unto me: 'As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height. |
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| 5 As birds flying, so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.' |
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| 6 Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy. |
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| 7 For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you a sin. |
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| 8 And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary. |
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| 9 And [to] his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted by the ensign have been his princes an affirmation of Jehovah, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem! |
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