Isaiah 31:3

Modern King James Version

And Egypt is a man, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not Spirit. When Jehovah shall stretch out His hand, both he who helps shall fall, and he who is helped shall fall down, and they shall all cease together.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:8

With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is Jehovah our God to help us and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Psalm 118:8

It is better to trust in Jehovah than to trust in man.

Psalm 33:17

A horse is a vain thing for safety; neither shall he deliver by his great strength.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O Jehovah, let the nations know they are but men. Selah.

Isaiah 10:3

And what will you do in the day of judgment and in destruction, of ruin when it comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away Egypt's prisoners, and the Ethiopian exiles, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with uncovered buttocks, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:6

And he who lives in this coast shall say in that day, Behold, this has become of our hope to which we fled for help there, to be delivered from before the king of Assyria; and, How shall we escape?

Isaiah 30:16

But you said, No; for we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. And you said, We will ride on the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

Isaiah 30:5

They were all ashamed of a people who could not profit them, nor be a help nor gain, but a shame and also a reproach.

Isaiah 30:7

For Egypt helps vainly, and worthlessly. So I have cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

Isaiah 36:6

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

Isaiah 36:9

How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 9:17

For this the Lord shall not rejoice over their young men, nor shall He have mercy on their orphans and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have forsaken Me, says Jehovah; you have gone backward; therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

Jeremiah 17:5

So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

Ezekiel 28:2

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

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am of the gods? But you are a man, and not God, in the hand of him who kills you.

Amos 2:15

nor shall he who handles the bow stand. And the swift-footed shall not save; and the horse rider shall not save his life.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.