Isaiah 36:5-7

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⁵ Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom, then, do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?^{(A) 6} See, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.^{(B) 7} But if you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God,’ [[is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?]]^[a](C)