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

³ Do not put your trust in princes,^(A)
    in human beings,^(B) who cannot save.
⁴ When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;^(C)
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.^(D)
5 Blessed are those^(E) whose help^(F) is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the Lord their God.

⁸ “Assyria^(A) will fall by no human sword;
    a sword, not of mortals, will devour^(B) them.
They will flee before the sword
    and their young men will be put to forced labor.^(C)

“In repentance and rest^(C) is your salvation,
    in quietness and trust^(D) is your strength,
    but you would have none of it.^(E)
16 You said, ‘No, we will flee^(F) on horses.’^(G)
    Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
    Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
¹⁷ A thousand will flee
    at the threat of one;
at the threat of five^(H)
    you will all flee^(I) away,
till you are left^(J)
    like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
    like a banner^(K) on a hill.”