5. “They were all ashamed of a people who do not profit them, not for help or profit, but a shame and also a reproach.”
6. The message concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress, from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,
7. even Mitsrayim, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore I have called her Rahaḇ-Hĕm-Sheḇeth.
8. And go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, that it is for a latter day, a witness forever:
9. that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of יהוה,