Isaiah 20:5

Those who relied on Ethiopia and Egypt will be dismayed and ashamed. It matters because misplaced trust always ends in disappointment.

Cross-references · 10

• Isa 30:5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
• Isa 30:3Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
• 1 Cor 3:21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
• Ezek 29:6–7All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 18:21Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
• Jer 9:23–24Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
• Jer 17:5Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
• Isa 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
• Isa 36:6Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
• Isa 30:7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

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