Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their disaster.

They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, ‘The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

“Assyria will not save us,
We will not ride on horses;
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the orphan finds mercy.”

Where now is your king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you requested,
“Give me a king and princes”?

And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?