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Trusting in People and Trusting in God

This is what the Lord says:
“Bad things will happen to those who put their trust in people.
    Bad things will happen to those who depend on human strength.
    That is because they have stopped trusting the Lord.
They are like a bush in a desert where no one lives.
    It is in a hot and dry land.
    It is in bad soil.
That bush does not know about the good things that God can give.

“But those who trust in the Lord will be blessed.
    They know that the Lord will do what he says.

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