Thematic Bible: In man
Thematic Bible
false Confidence » In man
A mighty army does not save the king. A warrior is not delivered by great strength.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. He is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.
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.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
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.
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).
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