Psalms 33:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

A horse is a vaine helpe, and shall not deliuer any by his great strength.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.
  • Prov 21:31 : 31 The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but saluation is of the Lord.
  • Ps 147:10 : 10 He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in the legs of man.
  • Judg 4:15 : 15 And the Lorde destroyed Sisera and all his charets, & al his hoste with the edge of the sword before Barak, so that Sisera lighted downe off his charet, and fled away on his feete.
  • 2 Kgs 7:6-7 : 6 For the Lord had caused the campe of the Aramites to heare a noyse of charets & a noise of horses, and a noise of a great armie, so that they sayde one to another, Beholde, the King of Israel hath hired against vs the Kings of the Hittites, and the Kings of the Egyptians to come vpon vs. 7 Wherefore they arose, and fled in the twilight, and left their tentes and their horses, and their asses, euen the campe as it was, and fledde for their liues.
  • Job 39:19-25 : 19 (39:22) Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying? 20 (39:23) Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull. 21 (39:24) He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man. 22 (39:25) He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde, 23 (39:26) Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield. 24 (39:27) He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet. 25 (39:28) He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and I sawe vnder the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of vnderstanding, neither yet fauour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all.
  • Isa 30:16 : 16 For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 (14:4) Asshur shal not saue vs, neither wil we ride vpon horses, neither will we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 33:16
    85%

    16The King is not saued by the multitude of an hoste, neither is the mightie man deliuered by great strength.

  • Prov 21:30-31
    2 verses
    84%

    30There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.

    31The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but saluation is of the Lord.

  • Amos 2:14-16
    3 verses
    80%

    14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie saue his life.

    15Nor he that handleth the bowe, shal stand, and he that is swift of foote, shall not escape, neyther shall he that rideth the horse, saue his life.

    16And he that is of a mighty courage among the strong men, shall flee away naked in that day, sayth the Lord.

  • Ps 147:10
    77%

    10He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in the legs of man.

  • Isa 31:1
    74%

    1Woe vnto them that goe downe into Egypt for helpe, and stay vpon horses, and trust in charets, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they be very strong: but they looke not vnto the holy one of Israel, nor seeke vnto the Lord.

  • Isa 31:3
    73%

    3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirite: and when the Lorde shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall fall, and hee that is holpen shal fall, and they shall altogether faile.

  • Job 39:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18(39:21) When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.

    19(39:22) Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?

    20(39:23) Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.

  • Ps 32:9
    73%

    9Be ye not like an horse, or like a mule, which vnderstand not: whose mouthes thou doest binde with bit and bridle, least they come neere thee.

  • Isa 30:16
    73%

    16For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter.

  • Deut 17:16
    73%

    16In any wise he shall not prepare him many horses, nor bring the people againe to Egypt, for to encrease the number of horses, seeing the Lord hath sayd vnto you, Ye shal henceforth goe no more againe that way.

  • Ps 20:7
    72%

    7Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.

  • Nah 3:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2The noyse of a whippe, and the noyse of the mouing of the wheeles, and the beating of the horses, and the leaping of the charets.

    3The horseman lifteth vp both the bright sword, and the glittering speare, and a multitude is slaine, and the dead bodyes are many: there is none ende of their corpses: they stumble vpon their corpses,

  • Ps 44:6
    71%

    6For I do not trust in my bowe, neither can my sworde saue me.

  • Ps 60:11
    70%

    11Giue vs helpe against trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.

  • Hos 14:3
    70%

    3(14:4) Asshur shal not saue vs, neither wil we ride vpon horses, neither will we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.

  • Ps 146:3
    70%

    3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sonne of man, for there is none helpe in him.

  • Ps 108:12
    69%

    12Giue vs helpe against trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.

  • Ezek 26:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10The dust of his horses shall couer thee, for their multitude: thy walles shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheeles, and of the charets, when he shall enter into thy gates as into the entrie of a citie that is broken downe.

    11With the hooues of his horses shall he treade downe all thy streetes: he shall slay thy people by the sworde, and the pillars of thy strength shall fall downe to the ground.

  • Ps 33:18
    69%

    18Beholde, the eye of the Lorde is vpon them that feare him, and vpon them, that trust in his mercie,

  • Judg 5:22
    69%

    22Then were the horsehooues broken with the oft beating together of their mightie men.

  • Prov 30:31
    69%

    31A lusty grayhound, and a goate, and a King against whom there is no rising vp.

  • Jer 12:5
    69%

    5If thou hast runne with the footemen and they haue wearied thee, then howe canst thou match thy selfe with horses? and if thou thoughtest thy selfe safe in a peaceable lande, what wilt thou do in the swelling of Iorden?

  • Jer 47:3
    69%

    3At the noise and stamping of ye hoofes of his strong horses, at the noise of his charets, and at the rumbling of his wheeles: ye fathers shall not looke backe to their children, for feeblenes of handes,

  • Ps 76:6
    68%

    6At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe.

  • Hab 3:15
    68%

    15Thou didest walke in the sea with thine horses vpon the heape of great waters.

  • Isa 43:17
    68%

    17When hee bringeth out the charet and horse, the armie and the power lie together, and shal not rise: they are extinct, & quenched as towe.

  • Job 36:19
    68%

    19Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

  • 2 Kgs 18:24
    68%

    24For how canst thou despise any captaine of the least of my masters seruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and horsemen?

  • Isa 36:9
    68%

    9For howe canst thou despise any captaine of the least of my lordes seruants? and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and for horsemen?

  • Job 11:12
    68%

    12Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.

  • Isa 2:7
    68%

    7Their land also was full of siluer & golde, and there was none ende of their treasures: and their land was full of horses, and their charets were infinite.

  • Mic 5:10
    68%

    10And it shal come to passe in that day, sayth the Lorde, that I will cut off thine horses out of the middes of thee, and I will destroy thy charets.

  • Job 41:9
    68%

    9(40:28) Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen at the sight of him?

  • Hab 1:8
    68%

    8Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening: and their horsemen are many: & their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flie as the eagle hasting to meate.

  • Jer 50:37
    67%

    37A sworde is vpon their horses & vpon their charets, and vpon all the multitude that are in the middes of her, and they shall be like women: a sworde is vpon her treasures, and they shall be spoyled.

  • Jer 3:23
    67%

    23Truly the hope of the hilles is but vaine, nor the multitude of mountaines: but in the Lorde our God is the health of Israel.

  • Isa 30:7
    67%

    7For the Egyptians are vanitie, & they shall helpe in vaine. Therefore haue I cried vnto her, Their strength is to sit still.

  • Job 41:26
    67%

    26(41:17) When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon.

  • Jer 51:21
    67%

    21And by thee wil I breake horse and horseman, and by thee will I breake the charet & him that rideth therein.

  • Amos 6:13
    67%

    13Ye reioyce in a thing of nought: yee say, Haue not wee gotten vs hornes by our owne strength?

  • Isa 5:28
    67%

    28Whose arrowes shall be sharpe, and all his bowes bent: his horse hoofes shal be thought like flint, and his wheeles like a whirlewinde.

  • Job 39:22
    67%

    22(39:25) He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,