they are but # 12_2KI_18_20 # Thou sayest, [but [they are but] vain words], [I have] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? 
they are but # 23_ISA_36_05 # I say, [sayest thou], [but [they are but] vain words] [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? 
they are but # 06_JOS_07_03 # And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; [and] make not all the people to labour thither; for they [are but] few.