Take the Jab - with Psalm and Rembrandt at end

Satire

PSALM 146:3-6 and a Rembrandt Christmas painting at the end of this edit.
"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:"

At the very end a painting by Rembrandt, of the Wise Men arriving in Bethlehem, one of them kneeling to Christ. Poor Mary in this painting looks confused, overwhelmed, flabbergasted: in other words, very human and vulnerable. As we all are at the moment.