Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.