Ezekiel 29:7

when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.

Ezekiel 17:15-17

But this one from Israel's royal family rebelled against the king of Babylon by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

Psalm 118:8-9

It is better to take shelter in the Lord than to trust in people.

Psalm 146:3-4

Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!

Proverbs 25:19

Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.

Isaiah 36:6

Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!

Jeremiah 17:5-6

The Lord says, "I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 37:5-11

At that time the Babylonian forces had temporarily given up their siege against Jerusalem. They had had it under siege, but withdrew when they heard that the army of Pharaoh had set out from Egypt.)

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Summary

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

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They took

Ezekiel 17:15
But this one from Israel's royal family rebelled against the king of Babylon by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?
Jeremiah 37:5
At that time the Babylonian forces had temporarily given up their siege against Jerusalem. They had had it under siege, but withdrew when they heard that the army of Pharaoh had set out from Egypt.)

Thou didst

Psalm 118:8
It is better to take shelter in the Lord than to trust in people.
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
Proverbs 25:19
Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.
Jeremiah 17:5
The Lord says, "I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.

General references

Proverbs 25:19
Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.
Isaiah 36:6
Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!

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