Psalms 33:17
A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
BSB
ASV
A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.
KJV
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 33 (460)
You will not be safe any more than the man who trusted in his own horse, of whom it was sung, "He cast the horse and its rider into the sea." The horse failed to save him. And so even if you are a giant …
An horse is a vain thing for safety. Military strength among the Orientals lay much in horses and scythed chariots, but the psalmist calls them a lie, a deceitful confidence. Surely the knight upon his gallant steed may be safe, either by valour or by flight? Not so, his horse shall bear him into danger or crush him with its fall. Neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. Thus the strongest defences are less than nothing when most needed. God only is to be trusted and adored.
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Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
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Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…
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A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
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This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah…
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Proverbs 21:31A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
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Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
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A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.