Quotes about Trust
Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
— Isaiah 26:20
They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.
— Isaiah 30:2
But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
— Isaiah 30:3
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
— Isaiah 30:12
And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
— Isaiah 30:21
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
— Isaiah 31:1
O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
— Isaiah 33:2
You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
— Isaiah 36:5
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
— Isaiah 36:6
But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
— Isaiah 36:7
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
— Isaiah 36:9
This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.
— Isaiah 36:14