Isaiah 2:22

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Summary

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Cease

Whose

For wherein

Bible References

Cease

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.

Whose

Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,