³ Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁸ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.

⁹ It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.

²² Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

¹¹ Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

⁹ Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

¹² Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

⁶ And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.

⁵ This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

³ For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.