21. Do you trust in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it? That is what Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is to all who trust in him.
22. Or do you people say to me, “It is in the Lord our God we trust!”? Is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, commanding Judah and Jerusalem, “Worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?’
23. “Now, make a wager with my lord, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses if you are able to put riders on them.
24. How then can you turn back even a captain, one of the least servants of my lord, trusting, as you do, in Egypt for chariots and horses?
25. Did I come up to destroy this place without the Lord? The Lord himself said to me: Go up and destroy that land!”