Isaiah 2:22

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Stop trusting other people to save you. Do not think too highly of them; they are only humans who have not stopped breathing yet.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the Lord says: “Bad things will happen to those who put their trust in people. Bad things will happen to those who depend on human strength. That is because they have stopped trusting the Lord.

Psalm 146:3

Don’t depend on your leaders for help. Don’t depend on people, because they cannot save you.

James 4:14

You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Your life is like a fog. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.

Psalm 8:4

And I wonder, “Why are people so important to you? Why do you even think about them? Why do you care so much about humans? Why do you even notice them?”

Isaiah 40:15

Look, all the nations in the world are like one small drop in the bucket. If the Lord took all the faraway nations and put them on his scales, they would be like small pieces of dust.

Psalm 62:9

People cannot really help. You cannot depend on them. Compared to God, they are nothing— no more than a gentle puff of air!

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing.

Job 27:3

as long as I have life in me, as long as breath from God is in my nostrils,

Isaiah 40:17

Compared to God, all the nations of the world are nothing. Compared to him, they are worth nothing at all.

Isaiah 51:12

The Lord says, “I am the one who comforts you. So why should you be afraid of people? They are only humans who live and die like the grass.

Malachi 3:15

We think proud people are happy. Evil people succeed. They do evil things to test God’s patience, and God does not punish them.”