“What sorrow awaits those who look to Egypt for help, trusting their horses, chariots, and charioteers and depending on the strength of human armies instead of looking to the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
Though you are such wicked rebels, my people, come and return to the Lord. I know the glorious day will come when each of you will throw away the gold idols and silver images your sinful hands have made.
Look, a righteous king is coming! And honest princes will rule under him. Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land.
Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone who has ears will be able to hear it. Justice will rule in the wilderness and righteousness in the fertile field. And this righteousness will bring peace.
Yes, it will bring quietness and confidence forever. My people will live in safety, quietly at home. They will be at rest.”
{Isaiah 31:1, 6-7; Isaiah 32:1-3, 16-18}