Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit; so when the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble and the one helped will fall, and both will perish together, establishing the fundamental disparity between God and earthly powers, between spirit and flesh, and the inevitable failure of those who rely on earthly help against God's power. The reduction of Egyptians to mere men and their horses to mere flesh emphasizes their fundamental limitation and mortality. The stretching out of God's hand represents the exercise of divine power that cannot be resisted. The falling of both helper and helped suggests that the alliance will prove mutually destructive. The oracle establishes that reliance on the merely human against God is doomed to failure.

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