Ezekiel 29:7
"When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand."
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- Isaiah 36:6
"Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 17:15
"But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 17:5
"Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 146:3
"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 118:8
"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 25:19
"Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 37:5
"Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem."
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