Isaiah 36:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ “I tell you, surely your eloquence, counsel and strength are for war. On whom, then, do you trust, that you rebel against me?

⁶ “Lo, you trust in this broken staff of a reed, in Egypt, whereupon if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it, as is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust in him.

⁷ “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is not that He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah took down and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?