2 Kings 18:21 - The Scriptures 1998

²¹ “Now look! You have put your trust in the staff of this crushed reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff; if a man leans on it, it will pierce his hand. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust and rely on him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

Common English Bible

²¹ It appears that you are trusting in a staff—Egypt—that’s nothing but a broken reed! It will stab the hand of anyone who leans on it! That’s all that Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, is to anyone who trusts in him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Do you hope in Egypt, that staff of a broken reed, which, if a man would lean upon it, breaking, it would pierce his hand? Such is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all who would trust in him.

2 Kings 18:21 Cross References

2 Kings 17:4

But the sovereign of Ashshur found a conspiracy in Hoshĕ

Isaiah 1:1

The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amots, which he saw concerning Yehuḏ

Isaiah 20:5

“And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Kush, their expectation, and of Mitsrayim, their boast.

Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the stubborn children,” declares יהוה, “to make counsel, but not from Me, and to devise plans, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;

Isaiah 30:7

even Mitsrayim, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore I have called her Rahaḇ

Isaiah 36:6

“Look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh the sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.

Jeremiah 46:17

“There they cried, ‘Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim, is but a noise. He has let the appointed time pass by!’

Jeremiah 46:2

For Mitsrayim, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neḵ

Hosea 1:1

The word of יהוה  that came to Hoshĕ