Psalm 118:9

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⁹It is better to take refuge in the Lord
^(A)than to trust in princes.

Ezekiel 29:7

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⁷^(A)when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.^[a]

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Ezekiel 29:7 Syriac (compare Psalm 69:23); Hebrew to stand

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Isaiah 31:1

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Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt

31 Woe^[a] to ^(A)those who go down to Egypt for help
    and rely on horses,
who ^(B)trust in chariots because they are many
    and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but ^(C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
    or consult the Lord!

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Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,

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Isaiah 30:2-3

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²^(A)who set out to go down to Egypt,
    without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
    and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
³^(B)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
    and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

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Psalm 146:3-5

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³^(A)Put not your trust in princes,
^(B)in a son of man, in whom there is ^(C)no salvation.
⁴When ^(D)his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.

⁵^(E)Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose ^(F)hope is in the Lord his God,

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Isaiah 31:8

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⁸^(A)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be ^(B)put to forced labor.

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Isaiah 30:15-17

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¹⁵For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
“In ^(A)returning^[a] and ^(B)rest you shall be saved;
    in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
But you were unwilling, ¹⁶and you said,
“No! We will flee upon ^(C)horses”;
    therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
    therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
¹⁷^(D)A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;
    at the threat of five you shall flee,
till you are left
    like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
    like a signal on a hill.

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Isaiah 30:15 Or repentance

Isaiah 36:6-7

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⁶^(A)Behold, you are trusting in 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 trust in him. ⁷But if you say to me, “We trust in the Lord our God,” is it not he ^(B)whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar”?

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