Isaiah 31:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit; and when the Lord stretches out His hand, both [Egypt] who helps will stumble, and [Judah] who is helped will fall, and they will all perish and be consumed together.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

Common English Bible

³ Egypt is human and not divine; their horses are flesh and not spirit. The LORD will extend his hand; the helper will stumble, those helped will fall, and they will all die together.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Egypt is man, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And so, the Lord will reach down his hand, and the helper will fall, and the one who was being helped will fall, and they will all be consumed together.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit. And the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together.

Isaiah 31:3 Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:8

With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” The people were encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

Psalm 118:8

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in mortals.

Psalm 33:17

The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O Lord; let the nations know that they are only human. Selah

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Cushites as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:6

On that day the inhabitants of this coastland will say, ‘See, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 30:16

and said, “No! We will flee upon horses”— therefore you shall flee! and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”— therefore your pursuers shall be swift!

Isaiah 30:5

everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, only shame and disgrace.

Isaiah 30:7

For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her, “Rahab who sits still.”

Isaiah 36:6

See, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 9:17

That is why the Lord did not have pity on their young people or compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have rejected me, says the Lord; you are going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:2

Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is proud and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,” yet you are but a mortal and no god, though you compare your mind with the mind of a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a mortal and no god, in the hands of those who pierce you?

Amos 2:15

those who handle the bow shall not stand, and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves, nor shall those who ride horses save their lives;

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”