Woe to those who depend on men, not God
31
📚Woe to those who go downto Egypt for help,
and rely on horses,
and trust in chariots,
because they are many,
and in horsemen,
because they are
very strong,
but who do not look to
the Holy One of Israel,
or seek the LORD!
2 📚Yet he too is wise,
and will bring disaster,
and will not call back
his words 📖,
but will arise against
the house of evildoers,
and against those who help
the workers of iniquity.
31:2 See what some leaders in Judah thought about God’s wisdom in Isa 29:15-16.⚜
3 📚Now the Egyptians are men,
and not God;
and their horses are flesh,
and not spirit.
When the LORD stretches
out his hand 📖,
both he who helps
will stumble,
and he who is helped
will fall,
and they will all perish
together.
God will protect Jerusalem
4 📚For the LORD has spoken to me thus:
“As the lion and the young lion
roaring over his prey
when a multitude of shepherds
is called out against him,
will not be afraid of their voices,
or disturbed by their noise,
so the LORD of hosts will come
down to fight for Mount Zion,
and for its hill.
5 📚Like birds 📖 flying,
so the LORD of hosts
will defend Jerusalem,
and defending it will also
deliver it, and passing
overhead 📖 will preserve it”.
6 📚“Turn 📖 to the One from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted 📖. 7 📚For in that day 📖 every man will throw away his silver idols and his gold idols which your own hands have made for yourselves, as a sin.
8 📚“Then the Assyrian will fall
by a sword not of man,
and a sword not of mortal
man will devour him;
but he will flee from
the sword,
and his young men will
become forced labourers.
9 📚And from fear he will
cross over to his stronghold 📖,
and his princes will be
afraid of the banner”,
says the LORD,
whose fire is in Zion,
and whose furnace 📖 is
in Jerusalem.