Psalms 108:12 · KJV
“Give us help from trouble: for vain {is} the help of man.”
— Psalms 108:12
{Wilt} not {thou}, O God, {who} hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he {it is that} shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms 108 — Context
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
11{Wilt} not {thou}, O God, {who} hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, 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.
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:5-8
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed {be} the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Psalms 146:3-5
Put not your trust in princes, {nor} in the son of man, in whom {there is} no help. {help: or, salvation}
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, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath {is} in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
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}.
Psalms 20:1-9
[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; {defend...: Heb. set thee on an high place}
Isaiah 30:3-5
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt {your} confusion.
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}