Psalm 146:3 {145:3}
Good News Translation
Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human being can save you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

Contemporary English Version
You can't depend on anyone, not even a great leader.

New American Bible
Put no trust in princes, in children of Adam powerless to save.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

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Psalm 62:9 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Psalm 118:8,9 It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man. . . .

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

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.

Isaiah 37:6 And Isaiah said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.

Jeremiah 17:5,6 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. . . .

help, or, salvation

Context
Praise the LORD, O My Soul
2Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes: 3In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.4His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.…
Cross References
Psalm 60:11
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man.

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

Psalm 118:8
It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man.

Psalm 118:9
It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.

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

Isaiah 36:6
Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

Jeremiah 17:5
Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

Daniel 6:9
So king Darius set forth the decree, and established it.

Psalm 146:2
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