Psalm 108:12 {107:13}
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O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

give

Psalm 20:1 Unto the end. A psalm for David. [2] May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.

for vain

Psalm 146:3-5 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. . . .

Job 9:13 God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.

Job 16:2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Isaiah 30:3-6 And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame. . . .

Isaiah 31:3 Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together.

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. . . .

Lamentations 4:17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

Context
Israel's Kingdom Blessing
11Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off ? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies? 12O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.13Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies to nothing.…
Cross References
Psalm 118:8
It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man.

Psalm 146:3
In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Isaiah 30:3
And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.

Lexicon
Give
הָֽבָה־ (hā·ḇāh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3051: To give, to put, imperatively, come

us
לָּ֣נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

aid
עֶזְרָ֣ת (‘ez·rāṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5833: Help, helper, assistance

against the foe,
מִצָּ֑ר (miṣ·ṣār)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent

for the help
תְּשׁוּעַ֥ת (tə·šū·‘aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8668: Deliverance, salvation

of man
אָדָֽם׃ (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

is worthless.
וְ֝שָׁ֗וְא (wə·šāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7723: Evil, idolatry, uselessness


Additional Translations
Give us aid against the foe, for the help of man is worthless.Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man.

Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

Give us help against the adversary: for vain is the help of man.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.
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