Isaiah 31:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:8

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Psalm 118:8

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

Psalm 33:17

The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O Lord! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the storm which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’ ”

Isaiah 30:16

but you said, “No! We will speed upon horses,” therefore you shall speed away; and, “We will ride upon swift steeds,” therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

Isaiah 30:5

every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.”

Isaiah 30:7

For Egypt's help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.”

Isaiah 36:6

Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is godless 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 have rejected me, says the Lord, you keep going backward; so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed 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 arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god—

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?

Amos 2:15

he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”