5 And they shall be terrified and ashamed of Ethiopia their confidence, and of Egypt their boast.
For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.
They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.
Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am] Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst give way and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and didst make all their loins to tremble.
So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?
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Commentary on Isaiah 20 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 20
This chapter is a prediction of the carrying away of multitudes both of the Egyptians and the Ethiopians into captivity by the king of Assyria. Here is,
Isa 20:1-6
God here, as King of nations, brings a sore calamity upon Egypt and Ethiopia, but, as King of saints, brings good to his people out of it. Observe,