Do Not Rely on Egypt, Rely on God
1Ha!
Those who go down to Egypt for help
And rely upon horses!
They have put their trust in abundance of chariots,
In vast numbers of riders,
And they have not turned to the Holy One of Israel,
They have not sought the Lord.
2But He too is wise!
He has brought on misfortune,
And has not canceled His word.
So He shall rise against the house of evildoers,
And the allies of the workers of iniquity.
3For the Egyptians are man, not God,
And their horses are flesh, not spirit;
And when the Lord stretches out His arm,
The helper shall trip
And the helped one shall fall,
And both shall perish together. [ . . . ]
6Return, O children of Israel, to Him to whom they have been so shamefully false; 7for in that day everyone will reject his idols of silver and idols of gold, which your hands have made for your guilt.
8Then Assyria shall fall,
Not by the sword of man;
A sword not of humans shall devour him.
He shall shrivel before the sword,
And his young men pine away.
9His rock shall melt with terror,
And his officers shall collapse from weakness—
Declares the Lord, who has a fire in Zion,
Who has an oven in Jerusalem.
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Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
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