Isaiah 36:5-7

Tree of Life Version

⁵ I say your strategy and strength for war are only words of a lip. Who do you rely on now, so that you have rebelled against me? ⁶ Behold, you rely on this splintered reed as a staff—Egypt! If a man leans on it, it will go into the palm of his hand and pierce it—thus Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who trust in him.

⁷ “‘But if you say to me: ‘We trust in Adonai our God’—is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, and then said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?