Psalms 108:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלֹֽא־אֱלֹהִ֥ים זְנַחְתָּ֑נוּ וְֽלֹא־תֵצֵ֥א אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים בְּצִבְאֹתֵֽינוּ

Transliteration

hălōʾ-ʾĕlōhîm zᵊnaḥtānû wᵊlōʾ-ṯēṣēʾ ʾĕlōhîm bᵊṣiḇʾōṯēnû

Grammar Details

*hălōʾ-ʾĕlōhîm*: interrogative particle + negative particle + noun, masculine, plural construct - is it not God
*zᵊnaḥtānû*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person plural suffix - you have rejected us
*wᵊlōʾ-ṯēṣēʾ*: conjunction + negative particle + verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - and you do not go out
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine, plural construct - God/gods
*bᵊṣiḇʾōṯēnû*: preposition + noun, masculine, plural + 1st person plural suffix - with our armies

Word Meanings

*hălōʾ-ʾĕlōhîm*: have you not, O God/is it not you, God
*zᵊnaḥtānû*: you have rejected us/cast us off/abandoned us
*wᵊlōʾ-ṯēṣēʾ*: and you do not go out/march forth
*ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods (plural form used for singular deity)
*bᵊṣiḇʾōṯēnû*: with our armies/hosts/military forces

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 20:1-9 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. 4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. 5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. 6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Isa 30:3-5 : 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isa 31:3 : 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.
Jer 17:5-8 : 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. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Lam 4:17 : 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Ps 146:3-5 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Job 9:13 : 13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Job 16:2 : 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

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