When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it
But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flouri
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his he
Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.