In that day(A) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(B) to those we relied on,(C) those we fled to for help(D) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(E)’”

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And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

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And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, ‘Surely such is our expectation, wherever we flee for (A)help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’ ”

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This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,(A)
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.(B)

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Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes (B)flesh his [a]strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:5 Lit. arm