Isaiah 2:22

New Century Version

You should stop trusting in people to save you, because people are only human; they aren’t able to help you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the Lord says: “A curse is placed on those who trust other people, who depend on humans for strength, who have stopped trusting the Lord.

Psalm 146:3

Do not put your trust in princes or other people, who cannot save you.

James 4:14

But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.

Psalm 8:4

But why are people even important to you? Why do you take care of human beings?

Isaiah 40:15

The nations are like one small drop in a bucket; they are no more than the dust on his measuring scales. To him the islands are no more than fine dust on his scales.

Psalm 62:9

The least of people are only a breath, and even the greatest are just a lie. On the scales, they weigh nothing; together they are only a breath.

Genesis 7:22

So everything on dry land that had the breath of life in it died.

Genesis 2:7

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

Job 27:3

as long as I am alive and God’s breath of life is in my nose,

Isaiah 40:17

Compared to the Lord all the nations are worth nothing; to him they are less than nothing.

Isaiah 51:12

The Lord says, “I am the one who comforts you. So why should you be afraid of people, who die? Why should you fear people who die like the grass?

Malachi 3:15

So we say that proud people are happy. Evil people succeed. They challenge God and get away with it.’ ”