Isaiah 31:3

Young's Literal Translation 1898

And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses [are] flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:8

With him [is] an arm of flesh, and with us [is] Jehovah our God, to help us, and to fight our battles;’ and the people are supported by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Psalm 118:8

Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,

Psalm 33:17

A false thing [is] the horse for safety, And by the abundance of his strength He doth not deliver.

Psalm 9:20

Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they [are] men! Selah.

Isaiah 10:3

And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? — from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?

Isaiah 20:4

so doth the king of Asshur lead the captivity of Egypt, and the removal of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with seat uncovered — the nakedness of Egypt;

Isaiah 20:6

and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day — Lo, thus [is] our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape — we?’

Isaiah 30:16

And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.

Isaiah 30:5

All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

Isaiah 30:7

Yea, Egyptians [are] vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: ‘Their strength [is] to sit still.’

Isaiah 36:6

‘Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed — on Egypt — which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it — so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

Isaiah 36:9

And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one [is] profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

Jeremiah 15:6

Thou — thou hast left Me — an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed [is] the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.

Ezekiel 28:2

‘Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I [am], The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou [art] man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God,

Ezekiel 28:9

Dost thou really say, ‘I [am] God,’ Before him who is slaying thee? And thou [art] man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.

Amos 2:15

And the handler of the bow standeth not, And the swift with his feet delivereth not [himself], And the rider of the horse delivereth not his soul.

Matthew 15:14

let them alone, guides they are — blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.’