Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Assyria » Israel condemned for trusting to
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by itself: Ephraim has hired lovers.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without sense: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
false Confidence » In man
There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without sense: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Turn away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for of what account is he?
Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
the Simple » The simple deceived by
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without sense: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.