Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Treasury of Scripture give Psalm 20:1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you; for vain Psalm 146:3-5 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help... Job 9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. Isaiah 2:22 Cease you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ? Isaiah 30:3-6 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion... Isaiah 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand... Jeremiah 17:5-8 Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD... Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Context I Will Make Music with My Soul
1O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. 3I will praise you, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises to you among the nations. 4For your mercy is great above the heavens: and your truth reaches to the clouds. 5Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: and your glory above all the earth; 6That your beloved may be delivered: save with your right hand, and answer me. 7God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 8Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver; 9Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. 10Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? 11Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts? 12Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 13Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
Douay-Rheims Bible
O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Darby Bible Translation
Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.
King James Bible
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Young's Literal Translation
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
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