Isaiah 30:5

5 all will become shamed because of a people who can't assist them. They are no help; they are no profit; rather, shame and disgrace.

Isaiah 30:5 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 30:5

They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit
them
The princes, the ambassadors that were sent unto them, and the king or people, or both, that sent them, who hoped for and expected great things from them, but, being disappointed, were filled with shame; because either the Egyptians, who are the people here meant, either could not help them, or would not, not daring to engage with so powerful an enemy as the Assyrian monarch, which is illustrated and confirmed by repeating the same, and using other words: nor be an help, nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach:
so far from being of any advantage to them, by helping and assisting them against their enemy, wanting either inclination or capacity, or both, that it not only turned to their shame, but even was matter of reproach to them, that ever they made any application to them, or placed any confidence in them for help.

Isaiah 30:5 In-Context

3 Pharaoh's refuge will become your shame, hiding in Egypt's shadow your disgrace.

4 Though their officials are in Zoan, and their messengers reach Hanes,

5 all will become shamed because of a people who can't assist them. They are no help; they are no profit; rather, shame and disgrace.

6 An oracle about the beasts in the arid southern plain. Through a land of distress and danger, lioness and roaring lion, viper and flying serpent, they will carry their wealth on donkeys' shoulders and their treasures on camels' humps to a people who won't profit,

7 for Egypt's help is utterly worthless. Therefore, I call her Rahab Who Sits Still.