Isaiah 31:3
But the Egyptians are men, not God;
What it says
Egyptians are men, not God, and when the LORD stretches out His hand both helper and helped will fall together.
What it is doing
This verse states the fatal weakness of relying on merely human strength.
In context
1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, 2Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; 3But the Egyptians are men, not God; 4For this is what the LORD has said to me: 5Like birds hovering overhead, 6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel. 7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made. 8“Then Assyria will fall, 9Their rock will pass away for fear,