Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Assyria » Israel condemned for trusting to
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath 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 heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
false Confidence » In man
There is no king saved by the multitude of an 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 heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth 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 goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
the Simple » The simple deceived by
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: 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, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.