Isaiah 36:4-10

4The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?

5Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?

6Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!

7Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’

8Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

9Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.

10Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’”