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Isaiah 31

9 aligned verses; 9 with wording or punctuation differences .

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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 .
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen . They do not look to the Holy One of Israel ; they do not seek the LORD .
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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 .
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers .
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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 .
But the Egyptians are men, not God ; their horses are flesh, not spirit . When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble , and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
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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 .
For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey — and though a band of shepherds is called out against it , it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights .
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As birds flying , so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem , covering and delivering, Passing over , and causing to escape . '
Like birds hovering overhead , so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem . He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it . ”
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Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy .
Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
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For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver , and his idols of gold , That your hands made to you -- a sin .
For on that day , every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
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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 .
“Then Assyria will fall , but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them , but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor .
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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 !
Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard , ” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem .

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