Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. They will run away from this sword and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.

A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine.

The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The Lord will strike with his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

For you say, "We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word."

For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.

They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?