Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' For in you the fatherless finds mercy."
(1) The reliance upon having their own state with their own chosen rulers was the original sin of the Old Israel; and this passage indicates that in the period of the New Covenant, God's people would not set up their own governments, or rely upon states, Assyria and Egypt, cited here, being the greatest states of that era.  Christ flatly declared that his followers would not trust in such things, saying, "It shall not be so among you"  (Matthew 20:25,26).  This has been a characteristic of Christianity throughout the ages.  Christians have not set up their own earthly governments, but submitted to whatever government presided over the place where they lived.  Only the Mormons, the apostate Church, and a few others ever departed from this.  But how about secular Israel?  This very day they are back again in the secular state business!