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20 You say (but they are [a]only empty words), ‘I have counsel and might for the war.’ Now on whom do you trust, (A)that you have rebelled against me? 21 Now behold, you [b](B)trust in the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his [c]hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ is it not He whose high places and (C)whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:20 Lit a word of the lips
  2. 2 Kings 18:21 Lit rely for yourself
  3. 2 Kings 18:21 Lit palm