Psalms 108:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 108:12

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

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

13 verses on the floor

Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psalms 60:11
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
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.
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?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

It intimates likewise that it is not only allowable, but sometimes convenient, to gather some verses out of one psalm and some out of another, and to put them together, to be sung to the glory of God. In singing this psalm we must give glory to God and take comfort to ourselves.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): " Lord, give us help from trouble, prosper our designs, and defeat the designs of our enemies against us." It is not unseasonable to talk of trouble at the same time that we talk of triumphs, especially when it is to quicken prayer for help from heaven; and it is a good plea, Vain is the help of man.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Words5

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H583326× in canon H305134× in canon H866834× in canon H772353× in canon H6862109× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 108:12ISA 2:22 JER 17:5
PSA 108:12ISA 2:22 PSA 146:3
PSA 108:12ISA 2:22 JAS 4:14
PSA 108:12ISA 2:22 PSA 144:3-4
PSA 108:12ISA 2:22 PSA 8:4
PSA 108:12ISA 31:3 EZE 20:33-34
PSA 108:12ISA 31:3 ISA 9:17
PSA 108:12ISA 31:3 EZE 28:9

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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