Psalms 108:12
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 108 connects to 10 cross-references. A psalm of David composed of portions of Psalms 57 and 60, opening with confident praise and thanksgiving and pivoting to a lament that military victory cannot be achieved through human effort alone. The oracle names God's ownership of territories …
Other Translations
Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.
Cross References
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a …
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch …