Isaiah 31:3

Modern English Version

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 who helps shall fall and he who is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:8

With this king is a strong arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God who will help us and fight our battles.” So the people leaned on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Psalm 118:8

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Psalm 33:17

A horse is a vain hope for safety; it will not deliver by its great strength.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O  Lord, that the nations themselves may know that they are mortals.    Selah

Isaiah 10:3

And what will you do in the day of punishment and in the desolation which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 20:4

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

Isaiah 20:6

So the inhabitants of this coastland shall say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And how shall we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 30:16

and you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you shall flee. “And we will ride on swift horses”; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

Isaiah 30:5

They all will be ashamed of a people who cannot profit them, who are not a help or profit, but a shame and also a reproach.

Isaiah 30:7

For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Therefore, I have called her, “Rahab who has been exterminated.”

Isaiah 36:6

Behold, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then will you turn away one captain of the least of my master’s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, nor shall He have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, and His hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 15:6

You who have forsaken Me, says the Lord, you keep going backward. Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you. I am weary of relenting!

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the midst of the seas,” yet you are a man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you yet say before him who slays you, “I am a god,” although you are a man and not God, in the hands of those who wound you?

Amos 2:15

The bowman will not stand firm, the swift-footed will not escape, nor will the horseman save his life.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.”