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Help Not in Egypt but in God

¹ Woe to those who go down to ^(C1)Egypt for help
And ^(C2)rely on horses,
And trust in chariots because they are many
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But they do not ^(C3)look to the ^(C4)Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

² Yet He also is ^(C1)wise and will ^(C2)bring disaster
And does ^(C3)not retract His words,
But will arise against the house of ^(C4)evildoers
And against the help of the ^(C5)workers of iniquity.

³ Now the Egyptians are ^(C1)men and not God,
And their ^(C2)horses are flesh and not spirit;
So the LORD will ^(C3)stretch out His hand,
And ^(C4)he who helps will stumble
And he who is helped will fall,
And all of them will come to an end together.

⁴ For thus says the LORD to me,

"As the ^(C1)lion or the young lion growls over his prey,
Against which a band of shepherds is called out,
And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise,
So will the LORD of hosts come down to wage ^(C2)war on Mount Zion and on its hill."

⁵ Like ^(F1)flying ^(C1)birds so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem.
He will ^(C2)protect and deliver it;
He will pass over and rescue it.

^6 (C1)Return to Him from whom ^(F1)you have ^(C2)deeply defected, O sons of Israel.⁷ For in that day every man will ^(C1)cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your ^(C2)sinful hands have made for you as ^(C2)a sin.

⁸ And the ^(C1)Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,
And a ^(C2)sword not of man will devour him.
So he will ^(F1)(C3)not escape the sword,
And his young men will become ^(C4)forced laborers.

⁹ "His ^(C1)rock will pass away because of panic,
And his princes will be terrified at the ^(C2)standard,"
Declares the LORD, whose ^(C3)fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.