Isaiah 36:4-10

Isaiah 36:4-10

[4] And Rabshakeh  said  ye now to Hezekiah,  Thus saith  the great  king,  of Assyria,  What confidence  is this wherein thou trustest?  [5] I say,  sayest thou, (but they are but vain  words)  I have counsel  and strength  for war:  now on whom dost thou trust,  that thou rebellest  against me? [6] Lo, thou 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 is Pharaoh  king  of Egypt  to all that trust  [7] But if thou say  to me, We trust  our God:  is it not he, whose high places  and whose altars  Hezekiah  hath taken away,  and said  to Judah  and to Jerusalem,  Ye shall worship  before  this altar?  [8] Now therefore give pledges,  I pray thee, to my master  the king  of Assyria,  and I will give  thee two thousand  horses,  if thou be able  on thy part to set  riders  upon them. [9] How then wilt thou turn away  the face  of one  captain  of the least  of my master's  servants,  and put thy trust  on Egypt  for chariots  and for horsemen?  [10] And am I now come up  without  the LORD  against this land  to destroy  it? the LORD  said  unto me, Go up  against this land,  and destroy