Isaiah 36:5

I say, , (but vain words) counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost you trust, that you rebellest against me?

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence this wherein you trustest?

5 I say, , (but vain words) counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost you trust, that you rebellest against me?

6 Lo, you trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

7 But if you say to me, We trust in the Yahuah our Elohim: not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

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