¹⁹ Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is `like' a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

²⁰ And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

²¹ For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Jehovah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.

¹⁴ To him that is ready to faint kindness `should be showed' from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

¹⁶ Which are black by reason of the ice, `And' wherein the snow hideth itself:

¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

¹⁸ The caravans `that travel' by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.

²⁰ They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.

¹ Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

² that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

³ Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

⁶ Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon 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 on him.

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

⁷ When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

¹⁶ At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account.