and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

At that time men will trust in their creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,