Isaiah 36:6

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.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

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?

8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray you, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set riders upon them.

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