While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.

Then shall the cities of Judah and the people of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense. But they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be an impure thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah. They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because their iniquity has become a stumbling-block for them.

Therefore, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. As for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. Nor shall we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods, for in You the fatherless finds mercy.

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities; and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers?

And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

My brothers, what profit is it if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him?